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SK38NE ANNS ROAD 784-1/6/18 (North West side) St Andrew's Methodist Church and Sunday School with steps and wall

GV II

St Andrew's Methodist Church and Sunday school, now the Chinese Christian Church, with steps and terrace wall. Dated 1896. Rock-faced stone and brick, with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, string courses, coped main gables. 2 storeys plus basement; 3 x 9 bays. Front has projecting central coped gable with finial and flanking buttresses, sillband and corbel table. Two 2-light pointed arched windows with plate tracery and above, a blank round window. Below, 2 pairs of smaller lancets. All these windows have hoodmoulds. On either side, a lower hipped entrance bay with angle buttresses and corbel table, with 2 segment-headed lancets and below, a pointed arched double door under a moulded gable with finial. Returns of the entrance bays have 2 similar lancets above, and a stepped triple stair window below. Outside, a flight of stone steps enclosed by a terrace wall with flat coping. Rock-faced right front, to Anns Road, has to right a coped gable with a segment-headed 3-light window with keystone and hoodmould, and below, 3 smaller segment-headed windows. To right, a single window. To left, a bay with 2 windows on each floor. To left again, a gabled entrance bay with a graduated 3-light window and below, cusped opening with recessed door. To left, a range with bays divided by pilaster buttresses, with 4 pairs of segment-headed lancets above and 4 stone mullioned 2-light windows below under drip moulds. Left front has to left a hipped projection with 3 segment-headed 2-light windows and above, 3 flat-headed 2-light windows, the central one under a small gable. Basement has 6 boarded openings. To right, a range with bays divided by pilasters. 5 pairs of segment-headed windows on the upper floors and below, 6 boarded openings to the basement. INTERIOR: largely original, has arch braced roof with panelled ceiling and panelled gallery on all sides. At the front, moulded elliptical arch containing organ. Fittings include original matchboard pulpit and benches.

Listing NGR: SK3541485097

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