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Description: Park Methodist Church & Attached Sunday School (Now Richard Oastler Public House)

Address: Park Street Market Park Street Brighouse West Yorkshire HD6 1JN

Grade: II

Group detail: Bethel Street (north side)

Full description:
Chapel and Sunday School. 1876 by R. F. Rogerson. Dressed stone with good ashlar dressings, slate roof. Freely handled transitional style. 2 storeys. 5-bay hall range flanked by square towers with slated iron crested pavilion roofs. The east tower rises a full stage higher, its return splayed with side elevation following street alignment. Strongly modelled false machicolated eaves cornice. To the base of each tower is a portal of 2 orders with stiff leaf impost, string carried in over doorhead, panelled tympanum, deeply roll moulded each on quarter jamb shafts but the whole is contained by crocket-finialed gable. The first floor of towers has large Romanesque window with arched lights and circular light to head. The top stage of east tower has an ogee capped oculus. The stiff leaf impost string and partly corbelled still course are carried over from towers on the first floor of the 5 bay range meeting an arcade of windows recessed in 2 orders with a quarter jamb shafts. Ground floor segmented arched windows. Right hand return wall 2 storeys of 9 uneven sized bays. 3 light mullioned windows to 1st bay, 2-light to 2nd, all others single light. Ground floor has segmental arched lintels, first floor has semi-circular arched heads and longer windows, moulded gutter brackets and square stack to right hand end.