Description

SS 20 NW BUDE-STRATTON FLEXBURY PARK, FLEXBURY

5/181 Flexbury Park Methodist Church
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- II

Methodist church with meeting and schoolrooms. 1905. Built and designed by John
Pethick, a local builder. Roughly-squared stone with contrasting freestone
dressings and slate roof. Ambitious eccentric free Gothic-style. Rectangular
church has gable ends and grandiose west front with narthex and west end angle
corner towers, north tower designed for stair to gallery, south tower with clock,
belfry and spire. 2-bay recess at east end of church, east end transepts gabled
to north and south contain meeting and schoolrooms. West front has narthex under
leanto roof, central bay buttressed with coped gable rising above roof. 5 lancet
windows in narthex have continuous hoodmould. 3 rectangular windows above narthex
have segmental heads and continuous hoodmould. 3 large lancets above have
continuous hoodmould. Curious angle towers have set-back buttresses and arched
stone doorways. South tower with tall shingled spire is of 3 stages with moulded
strings and pyramidal corner pinnacles between gables on all sides. Second stage
has single lancets to sides and clock in circular moulded frame. Belfry openings
are paired lancets. North tower is a truncated version of the south tower,
gabled to north-west and south-east only. Pyramidal pinnacle to north-west gable.
6-bay north and south sides of church buttressed with rectangular windows under
segmental heads, and large lancet windows above. Triple lancets to gable ends of
east projections. Pyramical pinnacles to gable ends. Ventilator pots on gabled
projections to roof of church. Interior. Good arch braced roof. Plans for west
gallery not executed. Contemporary pitch pine seating constructed from timber
washed ashore from a wreck. Contemporary pulpit designed by John Pethick.
Although not strictly architecturally literate this curious design is extremely
ambitious.

Listing NGR: SS2111407003

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523537

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