Description

SE 22 NE SPENBOROUGH MB LATHAM LANE
GOMERSAL
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Gomersal Methodist Church
30.4.82
II

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. 1827-8 at the instigation of E Brooke of
Honley. Dressed stone. Hipped roof. Two storeys with string course
and moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. A well proportioned
facade treated as a broad bow of 4 bays of fixed pane windows with
glazing bars and flat arched heads. A single flanking bay to left
and right is slightly lower with round arched doorway with recessed
reveals and stilted fanlight. Single light, similar to before, above
doorway.

The interior was partly refurbished in 1868. Galleried on 3 sides the
rear gallery being carved as the outside wall. The gallery fronts are
panelled, and the gallery is supported on slender tapering cast iron
columns with acanthus leaf capitals. Mainly box pewed. The central
pulpit has been successfully re-set in the organ loft gallery behind
which the handsome organ is set in an apse. Cast iron rails to rostrum.
Acanthus leaf ceiling roses, with a large one in centre, as vent, in
curvilinear diamond panel.

Listing NGR: SE2051626471

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600165

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