Description

SE 22 NE SPENBOROUGH MB LATHAM LANE GOMERSAL 2/128 Gomersal Methodist Church 30.4.82 II

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. 1827-8 at the instigation of E Brooke of Honley. Dressed stone. Hipped roof. Two storeys with string course and moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. A well proportioned facade treated as a broad bow of 4 bays of fixed pane windows with glazing bars and flat arched heads. A single flanking bay to left and right is slightly lower with round arched doorway with recessed reveals and stilted fanlight. Single light, similar to before, above doorway.

The interior was partly refurbished in 1868. Galleried on 3 sides the rear gallery being carved as the outside wall. The gallery fronts are panelled, and the gallery is supported on slender tapering cast iron columns with acanthus leaf capitals. Mainly box pewed. The central pulpit has been successfully re-set in the organ loft gallery behind which the handsome organ is set in an apse. Cast iron rails to rostrum. Acanthus leaf ceiling roses, with a large one in centre, as vent, in curvilinear diamond panel.

Listing NGR: SE2051626471

External Links

• Wikidata Q26600165

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