Description

ST 45 NW CHURCHILL C.P. FRONT STREET (north side)

8/80 Methodist Church, School Room, Coach
House and attached Walls

G.V. II

Methodist Church, School Room and Coach House. Dated 1879 (on east gable end of
School Room). By Foster and Wood of Bristol. Squared and coursed rockfaced
rubble with flush ashlar quoins and dressings, stone copings, plain tile roofs and
brick stacks. 3-bay church at right-angles to road to left-hand linked to 4-bay
School Room by 4-bay corridor with service rooms. School Room further linked by
loggia to porte cochere and Coach House. The complex forms an irregular L-shaped
plan. Free-form Gothic style. Church with south-east porch and south apsidal
ending with cusped openwork panelled parapets and crocketted pinnacles. Windows
are 2 and 3-cusped lights of florid Perpendicular style. North-east staircase
turret with pyramidal cap for gallery access. Interior. South gallery, barrel
roof in nave, canted barrel roof in chancel. Contemporary fittings and stained
glass in all windows. School Room with cross-mullion windows under gabled heads.
Some applied half-timbering with brick infil to east and west gable ends. Good
dentil coursed bargeboards. Similar details to Coach House complex. Tall
panelled brick stacks. Spear railings fence between buildings and graveyard.
Boundary walls, 1 metre high, with gate entrances to east and west ends with fine
cast iron gas lamp standards. Further walls and railings to Coach House
courtyard. The complex, built for Sidney Hill of Langford House (q.v.), makes a
fine group with the Clock Tower.(q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST4435259773

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Churchill Methodist Church at Wikipedia
• Churchill Methodist Church official website
• Wikidata Q26451665

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