Description

YORK

SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE
1112-1/17/993 (North side)
01/07/68 Central Methodist Church and
attached ancillary buildings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SAVIOURGATE
Centenary Methodist Church)

GV II*

Wesleyan Methodist chapel; schoolrooms and ancillary
accommodation at rear. 1840; ancillary buildings 1872 and
1895. Chapel by James Simpson of Leeds.
MATERIALS: chapel front of cream brick in Flemish bond with
sandstone ashlar portico; rear and returns of orange-grey
mottled brick in English garden-wall bond. Hipped slate roof
with brick stack. Wrought-iron overthrow and lamp bracket.
EXTERIOR: basement and 2 storeys; 5-bay pedimented front,
articulated 1:3:1 by pilasters behind tetrastyle giant Ionic
portico. Entablature to pediment returns on each side across
full width of front. Basement window to left is 4-pane sash,
to right 16-pane sash. Flights of steps beneath portico lead
to three pairs of folding sunk panelled doors with flat arches
of gauged brick. Flanking windows are bordered lights in
raised architraves over sill bands: upper storey windows are
similar.
Rear: 2-storey 5-bay apse. Basement windows originally 16-pane
sashes with flat arches, some with semicircular grilles.
Ground and first floor windows are round-headed bordered
lights with brick arches and stone sills, those on first floor
taller.
Left and right returns repeat fenestration of rear. Rear bay
of right return filled by ashlar doorcase with plain jambs,
shouldered lintel and dentilled cornice on moulded consoles,
beneath parapet with moulded coping: panelled double doors are
approached by steps.
INTERIOR: 2 staircases to gallery have open strings, slender
turned balusters, shaped treadends and serpentine handrail
wreathed around turned newel on shaped curtail steps. Oval
gallery on cast-iron Corinthian columns has sunk-panelled
front projecting on modillions. Numbered panelled box pews on
ground floor and in gallery retain original fittings. Gallery
windows in round-arched architraves have coloured glass
borders incorporating palmette and rinceaux motifs.
Modillioned ceiling cornice is enriched with egg-and-dart
mouldings over plaster frieze of rinceaux and rosettes:
ceiling is coffered with rosette mouldings in alternate
panels. Massive matching pulpit and organ case. Wall
monuments: white marble sarcophagus to Joseph Agar, d.1847,
signed Waudby; pedimented tabernacle supported by sculpted
figures to Rev. David Hill, d.1896, by Skelton of York.

(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 52).

Listing NGR: SE6054051896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Central Methodist Church, York at Wikipedia
• Central Methodist Church, York official website
• Wikidata IDs Q107490245 Q17549491

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