Description

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SD31NW
664-1/1/30

SOUTHPORT,
DERBY ROAD (North West side),
Former Methodist Church of St Mark

(Formerly listed as St Mark's Methodist Church)

GV II

Former Methodist church. c1905, by FW Dixon of Oldham. Accrington
brick with sandstone dressings, graduated green slate roofs,
copper-clad spirelet.
STYLE: Arts-and-Crafts Perpendicular.
PLAN: nave on roughly north-south axis, with north-east tower
and north-west porch, east and west transepts, south chancel.
EXTERIOR: the square tower, embraced by the nave, with
diagonal buttresses, tall parapet with shaped coping and a
spirelet, has in the east side a doorway and 2-light window
above with stone surround; windows in the north side in
similar style, a small window in each side of the ringing
chamber, and a 2-light louvred belfry window under a 2-centred
arch in each side.
The north gable of the nave has a shallow 3-bay narthex with 2
doorways, and above this a very large 2-centred arched 6-light
window; to the right is a large square full-height 2-storey
porch with pyramidal roof (converted to cloakrooms). The 4-bay
side walls have buttresses and tall segmental-pointed 2-light
windows with tracery.
The transepts have very large 2-centred arched 5-light windows
with tracery.
INTERIOR: wide nave with unusual boarded segmental-vaulted
ceiling carried on very large arch-braced "hammerbeam" trusses
of painted oak, with curved passing braces; good oak-panelled
dado, lectern, benches, choir stalls and north gallery (all
original); stained glass memorial windows, including one to
Sir William Hartley (of Hartley's jam) who paid
pound-for-pound with the congregation for the cost of the
building.
Forms group with Arden College to south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3428317232

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659825

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)