Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0416NE GALGATE
770-1/3/69 (South West side)
17/01/89 Trinity Methodist Church, Sunday
School and attached railings

GV II

Methodist church and attached Sunday School with railings.
1894. By Marley & Woodhouse of Bradford. Rock-faced stone
with ashlar plinth and dressings; slate roof with stone
gable copings and terracotta ridges and finials and stone
spire.
PLAN: ritual east is geographical west. Nave with ritual
south-west tower, west vestibule, shallow transepts, and
chancel. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: west elevation has steps up to paired double boarded
doors in gabled surrounds with nook-shafts, pointed arches,
and gabled buttresses; lancets either side. Pinnacles rising
from buttresses have high finials in front of sill-string to
large 5-light window with Geometrical tracery. At left, paired
cusped lancets to stair tower with blind-arcaded frieze under
hexagonal hipped roof; at right, 3-stage tower has 2-light
window with tracery in first stage, 2 tall lancets in second,
tall 2-light window in third with clock set in head under
gable; gabled angle buttresses rise to centre of top stage
which has chamfered coping below octagonal angle pinnacles
flanking tall spire with bands and lucarnes, and weather-vane
finial. All windows chamfered, on sill-strings and with
dripmoulds.
2-light cusped traceried windows in nave and transepts, with
buttresses defining bays; transept gables have large round
windows with geometric tracery.
Sunday School building attached to church chancel has gable
over 4-light mullioned-and-transomed window under cinquefoil
window with plate tracery; relieving arch above.
Double-boarded doors at right. Hall to right has 4 two-light
mullioned windows under hipped roof.
INTERIOR: panelled west gallery with inserted glazed screen
below; inserted boarded ceiling above high coving with
corbelled trusses and intermediate plaster panels and thin
wood ribs. Pointed chamfered rere-arches to windows. Boarded
dado.
FITTINGS: Gothic fittings, with wood Communion rail on
wrought-iron balustrade; richly decorated reading desk with
shafts and panels; organ behind reading desk. Incised brass
door furniture. Some original pews remain, with Gothic ends
and boarded backs, but most removed.
MEMORIALS: war memorial in vestibule has names carved on wood
panel; other monuments in church include a panel to Rev G
Brown, born in Barnard Castle in 1835, died 1917, missionary,
explorer and scientist.
STAINED GLASS: that in north transept by Abbott & Co. of
Leicester: David and Dorcas; south transept war memorial
window.
Hall has laminated wood roof trusses.
Alterations which began in 1989 are expected to continue with
conversion of Sunday School room to a flat.
Low walls with chamfered coping have spear-headed railings and
enclose street fronts of both parts of the building.

Listing NGR: NZ0493316588

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571657

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)