Description

MANNINGTREE SOUTH STREET
TM 1031 (east side)

9/186 Methodist Church,
(formerly the Wesleyan
Chapel)

GV II

Methodist Church. Circa 1807. White brick, stone dressings, plastered returns,
grey slate roof. 2 storeys. Of 5 bays, the upper storeys set back. Ground
floor, pilastered, parapeted and corniced end bays, each with a cetnral window
with glazing bars and margins, brick surrounds. In line stone cornice to open
portico, 2 fluted columns with capitals and bases resting on dwarf walls which
become plinths to end bays. Step approach between the columns, 4 panelled doors
to end bays. Round headed windows with glazing bars to right and left of
central panelled doors, round headed fanlight with glazing bars over, right and
left brick pilasters. First floor, the outer bays of 2 stepped blocks, outer
with stone cornices and parapets and angle pilasters, taller inner blocks with
brick cornices and parapets. Central arcade of 3 round headed windows with
glazing bars, pilasters between and to right and left, cornice over frieze with
centre panel reading Methodist Church, moulded pediment over surmounted by a
painted cupola. Square base, sunk chamfered angles continued through moulded
cornice and tall dome. Elaborate weathervane, louvres to main faces. The full
height second bay to returns are plastered, upper windows with glazing bars and
margins, ground floor vertically boarded door to left, blocked to right. The
plastered returns of 2 storeys and 4 bays, eaves band, pilasters between windows
and band below lower windows, panels between upper and lower windows. Lower
windows rectangular, upper with round heads, all with glazing bars and margins.

Listing NGR: TM1070831649

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533061

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