Description

SK5461
924-1/6/16

MANSFIELD
BRIDGE STREET
(North side)
Bridge Street Methodist Church

GV
II

Methodist church. 1864. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings
and hipped slate roof. Italianate style. Plinth and eaves
band.
2 storeys; 3 x 6 windows. 3-bay west front has first-floor
band and moulded cornice, with pierced balustrade and corner
pedestals topped with urns. Recessed central bay has a portico
in antis with 2 columns and pilasters with Corinthian
capitals. On either side, a segment-headed double door. Above,
a round-arched triple window with polychrome head, hoodmould
and central keystone. Cornice dated 1864 in Roman numerals.
Side bays have rusticated pilasters with scroll brackets to
the cornice. Single round-arched windows with polychrome
heads, keystones and hoodmoulds, and below, triangular-headed
windows with hoodmoulds.
Each return has a similar single window on each floor. On
either side, 6 round-headed windows with keystones and below,
6 triangular-headed windows.
East end has a central projection with lean-to roof and a
central gable containing a round window. On either side, a
single round-headed window.
INTERIOR has moulded cornice and cross beam ceiling with oval
ventilators. Panelled gallery, curved at the rear, with
fleurons and dentillated top edge, carried on twisted
cast-iron columns with composite capitals. At each end 2
doors, those to rear with cornices. At the front, enriched
panelled choir gallery on cast-iron brackets. Above, panelled
elliptical arch with enriched spandrels and panelled pilasters
with composite capitals, framing central round window flanked
by single round-headed windows.
At the rear, central stained-glass window and above, triple
round-headed window flanked by similar single windows. Ground
floor has stained-glass windows, late C19 and early C20.
Gallery side windows have stained-glass memorial panels.
Entrance lobbies have wooden dogleg stairs with stick
balusters and ramped handrails, and double doors to gallery.
FITTINGS: circular rostrum with ornate cast-iron railing.
Square wooden pulpit on tapered wooden base flanked by square
pedestals with Ionic corner columns and ornate cast-iron
railing. On the front of each pedestal, a bronze war memorial
plaque under a wooden pediment. Matching communion table. Box
pews throughout.
MEMORIALS include a resited marble tablet, 1818, and 6 small
brasses and tablets.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 170).

Listing NGR: SK5416961075

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502327

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