Description

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SW MILTON STREET, Saltburn
802-1/10/54 (North side)
Milton Street Methodist Church and
attached railings and walls

GV II

Includes: Milton Street Methodist Church and attached railings
and walls DIAMOND STREET Saltburn.
Wesleyan Methodist Church with walls and railings. 1905 by
Garside & Pennington of Pontefract and Castleford.
MATERIALS: rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; roof of
plain tiles with red ridge tiles and stone gable copings;
stone spire; wrought-iron railings.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: aisled nave with transepts, south-east tower and
south-west vestry.
EXTERIOR: 3-stage tower has steps on Diamond Street front to
boarded doors, with elaborate hinges, in deeply-moulded arch
under hoodmould.
Front to Milton Street has 2-light window with cusped
Y-tracery.
Second stage has single lights-framed by tall buttress; top
stage has paired belfry louvres openings with mullion and
cusped Perpendicular tracery. Deeply-moulded 2-centred arches
over belfry openings spring from stepped diagonal buttresses;
tower parapet on eaves cornice has gargoyles at angles;
octagonal spire has tall slender finial.
East front to Diamond Street has 2-light square-headed windows
flanking central buttress which rises to sloping sill of large
4-light window with Perpendicular and mouchette tracery, and
swept gablets on main mullions from which shafts rise through
hoodmould of 2-centred-arched head.
Three 3-light aisle and clerestory windows have Perpendicular
tracery and square heads; large 4-light transept windows.
Vestry has steps up to double boarded door to Diamond Street
flanked by Perpendicular lights; canted right return. Large
angle buttresses, those at east end with swept gabled coping.
Roof has stone gable coping with mid-pitch gablets; roofs pent
over aisles and hipped over vestry.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: dwarf walls with ashlar coping surround
church and vestry along street fronts; have spike-headed
railings and principals with rear stays.
(Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-:
93).

Listing NGR: NZ6638521473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667189

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