church/chapel — Greyfriars

Detached five-bay double-height Gothic Revival Methodist church, built 1885, with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to north-west. Extensively renovated, 1999, with dividing floor inserted forming two-storey space to accommodate use as gallery. Pitched slate roofs with red clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping having sproketed finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded cut-stone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-granite dressings including buttresses, quoins to corners, stringcourses, and decorative panels to gables. Trefoil-headed window openings to ground floor entrance (west) front in stepped arrangement with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds, and fixed-pane fittings. Pointed-arch window openings to first floor in tripartite arrangement on cut-granite apron having quatrefoil panels, block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings over, and cut-granite mullions and tracery forming paired trefoil-headed openings with cinquefoils to arches. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with fixed-pane fittings. Rose window to gable to east with cut-granite surround and tracery, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to porch with cut-granite surround having hood moulding over, moulded reveals with engaged colonettes, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with wrought iron hinges. Full-height interior open in to roof remodelled, 1999, with timber floor inserted to first floor on steel girder frame, cut-sandstone pointed arches to west and to former chancel (east) having hood mouldings over, and exposed timber roof construction on moulded corbels. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.