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Latitude: 53.6388 / 53°38'19"N
Longitude: -2.995 / 2°59'41"W
OS Eastings: 334313
OS Northings: 416274
OS Grid: SD343162
Mapcode National: GBR 7VJC.D9
Mapcode Global: WH861.YSZR
Plus Code: 9C5VJ2Q4+G2
Entry Name: Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church
Listing Date: 20 February 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379798
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479206
ID on this website: 101379798
Location: Sefton, Merseyside, PR8
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Kew
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Southport St Philip and St Paul with Wesley
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Protestant church building
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW SOUTHBANK ROAD
664-1/1/204 (North West side)
20/02/98 Wesley Southbank Road Methodist
Church
II
Methodist church. 1888. Glazed red brick with sandstone
dressings, slate roof.
STYLE: Romanesque style.
PLAN: conventional east-west axis reversed. Nave with
octagonal tower at south-east corner embraced by porch on east
side and apse on south side, north and south transepts, short
chancel.
EXTERIOR: the gabled east facade of the nave, framed by
straight buttresses with saddleback coping, has tall
round-headed lancet windows divided 1:2:1 by pilaster strips.
Carved panels below the central pair of windows and an oculus
in the gable above them.
To the left is a gabled porch with a large round-headed open
arch to the front and a smaller one in each side, all these
linked by clustered shafts with carved capitals.
Rising behind the porch is a narrow octagonal tower which has
moulded ribs to the angles, a string course defining an upper
stage with a small round-headed window in each side, a
slightly-oversailing parapet, an octagonal belfry stage with
small mullioned 2-light openings below taller round-headed
belfry louvres, and a steep octagonal roof with a finial.
Attached to the south side of the tower is a semicircular apse
with narrow round-headed windows arranged as an arcade with
shafts at the angles, a simplified Lombard frieze, coped
parapet and semi-conical lead roof.
The side walls of the nave and the transepts have narrow
round-headed windows, those in the gable-walls of the
transepts paired.
INTERIOR: includes stained glass.
Listing NGR: SD3431316274
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