Description

HELLAND
SX 07 SE
1/51 Helland Wesleyan Methodist Church
- and attached Sunday School

II

Methodist church with attached Sunday school. Dated 1878. Coursed slatestone rubble
with granite dressings. Slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends ; hipped
end roof to the Sunday school, with axial stack with brick shaft.
Plan: Single auditorium plan, with entrance through porch at the front gable end and
ritual east at the rear gable end. The Sunday school is attached to rear right,
forming an L-plan, with the axial stack heating the right end of the Sunday school ;
the end bay to right is a coach house. Vestigial Gothic style.
Exterior: Front gable end has gabled porch with buttresses and quatrefoil window to
front in granite surround ; terracotta finial. Double doors with strap hinges at the
right side. Gable end has 2 pointed arched lancets with stained glass margin
glazing, circular datestone above with recessed quartrefoil and inscription :
Wesleyan Methodist Church 1878. Right side has one similar window, left side has 2
paired similar windows and buttress to right and left. Rear has 2 similar windows,
recessed blind circle above. Sunday school has porch set in the angle to the church,
with buttress and double doors. 2 paired plate-glass sashes with shouldered heads.
The end bay is the coach house, set back to right, with double doors. Rear of the
Sunday school is rendered with paired sashes ; parallel single storey range attached
to left with stack to rear.
Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX0732471148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613291

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