Latitude: 53.7314 / 53°43'52"N
Longitude: -1.6589 / 1°39'32"W
OS Eastings: 422597
OS Northings: 426160
OS Grid: SE225261
Mapcode National: GBR JTV9.M4
Mapcode Global: WHC9Q.HG7T
Plus Code: 9C5WP8JR+GC
Entry Name: Church of St John (Methodist)
Listing Date: 3 December 1979
Last Amended: 13 January 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1183996
English Heritage Legacy ID: 340930
ID on this website: 101183996
Location: Brownhill End, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF17
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Birstall and Birkenshaw
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Batley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Birstall St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
SE 22 NW BATLEY MB HUDDERSFIELD ROAD BIRSTALL 2/25 3.12.79 Church of St John (Methodist) (Formerly listed as Wesleyan Church)
II
Methodist Chapel. Dated 1846. Possibly by James Simpson. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys on tall plinth with basement. 6 bay hall with 5 bay plain Classical front, flanked by broad clasping pilasters. 3 bay central break is pedimented with tablet in tympanum with embossed lettering: WESLEYAN CHAPEL To left and right steps lead to panelled doors with round arched fanlight in doorcase with engaged columns, entablature and blocking course. Round arched windows, with architraves, have keystone and impost blocks and marginal glazing.
Fine interior has gallery to 3 sides on thin Corinthian columns. Pilaster bay divisions to walls. Gallery and ground floor are box pewed throughout to seat 1150. Handsome organ case framed in Corinthian order. Tall pulpit up twin flights of stairs. Communion table and ornamental cast iron Communion rail. Cast iron balconies from organ to staircase doors and gallery.
Bust of John Nelson, 1705-1774, founder of the Chapel, over inscribed tablet, under gallery. John Nelson was a pioneer of early Methodism in Yorkshire.
Inscribed foundation stone reads: "The original Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1750. Rebuilt and enlarged 1782. This Chapel was built in 1846".
Listing NGR: SE2258226174
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