Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE PARK STREET, Lytham
621-1/6/79 (West side)
Lecture Hall attached to Lytham
Methodist Church

GV II

Methodist lecture hall. Dated 1901 on plaque to right.
Yellow brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, hipped slate
roof and lead-clad dome over entrance porch.
Linear plan parallel to street, with entrance corridor to
church on left. Edwardian Baroque style.
Single storey on 2 levels, the main range 1:3:1 bays,
symmetrical, the centre projected; and the lower entrance
corridor to the left, 3 narrow bays with a projected central
drum which is the porch.
The hall has a high plinth, deep frieze and prominent moulded
cornice; 3 tall windows with moulded architraves and elongated
triple keystones rising into stylised pediments in the frieze;
and in each of the set-back outer bays a stone plaque with
carved cartouche and raised lettering: "WESLEYAN METHODIST
CHURCH" to the left and "FOUNDED 1867 ENLARGED 1901" to the
right.
The north end wall has a large Venetian window. The entrance
corridor to the left has a central segmental porch which has a
wide doorway with moulded architrave including a cartouche
keystone and elaborately carved segmental pediment in front of
the domed roof of the drum, and small side windows.
INTERIOR: Arts-and-Crafts semicircular-arched fireplace with
copper hood. Included for group value with Methodist church to
left.

Listing NGR: SD3653627296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513698

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