Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 WILDER ROAD
853-1/6/139 (South side)
12/03/90 Emmanuel Church
(Formerly Listed as:
WILDER ROAD
(South side)
Methodist Church)

II

Methodist Church. 1899-1900, by WH Gould of Ilfracombe.
MATERIALS: squared local Plaistow stone rubble with dressings
of Bath stone. Tiled roof with pierced crested ridge tiles.
PLAN: main body of church runs east-west (from Market Street
to Avenue Road) with gabled projections on north and south
sides, 3 to south and 2 to north. At west end of north front
(facing Wilder Road) is a square tower with spire. Entrance
porches at east end of north and south sides,
and attached to western projection on south side. Church at
first floor level with Sunday School beneath.
EXTERIOR: Early English style with lancet windows and angle
buttresses. In east gable a more elaborate 5-light window with
pointed arch, the outer lights paired under a single pointed
arch with a trefoiled light in the head, the whole window
having in its head a circular light enclosing 4 trefoiled
lights.
Front gable windows and main window in west gable are of 2
lights with round light in the head enclosing 4 smaller round
lights. Windows contain coloured glass in small square leaded
panes, except for the east window which has figures in
coloured glass.
Tower is in 3 stages, the narrower third stage with pinnacled,
octagonal, angle turrets. Spire octagonal in plan with gablets
in the sides. On centre of main roof a leaded fleche, square
in section and diagonally-set; pointed roof, both this and the
base with patterned rib work.
INTERIOR not inspected.
The site was formerly occupied by Ilfracombe cattle market.
(Ilfracombe Chronicle 4.6.1937: Hussell AT: 7; Cherry B: Draft
for rev. ed. of Pevsner's North Devon: Devon Record Office:
261).

Listing NGR: SS5180247724

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504086

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