Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW SOUTHBANK ROAD
664-1/1/204 (North West side)
20/02/98 Wesley Southbank Road Methodist
Church

II

Methodist church. 1888. Glazed red brick with sandstone
dressings, slate roof.
STYLE: Romanesque style.
PLAN: conventional east-west axis reversed. Nave with
octagonal tower at south-east corner embraced by porch on east
side and apse on south side, north and south transepts, short
chancel.
EXTERIOR: the gabled east facade of the nave, framed by
straight buttresses with saddleback coping, has tall
round-headed lancet windows divided 1:2:1 by pilaster strips.
Carved panels below the central pair of windows and an oculus
in the gable above them.
To the left is a gabled porch with a large round-headed open
arch to the front and a smaller one in each side, all these
linked by clustered shafts with carved capitals.
Rising behind the porch is a narrow octagonal tower which has
moulded ribs to the angles, a string course defining an upper
stage with a small round-headed window in each side, a
slightly-oversailing parapet, an octagonal belfry stage with
small mullioned 2-light openings below taller round-headed
belfry louvres, and a steep octagonal roof with a finial.
Attached to the south side of the tower is a semicircular apse
with narrow round-headed windows arranged as an arcade with
shafts at the angles, a simplified Lombard frieze, coped
parapet and semi-conical lead roof.
The side walls of the nave and the transepts have narrow
round-headed windows, those in the gable-walls of the
transepts paired.
INTERIOR: includes stained glass.

Listing NGR: SD3431316274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660031

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record