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Description: Mytholmroyd Methodist Chapel including dwarf wall and railings to street

Address: The Chapel Scout Road Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge Calderdale HX7 5HZ

Grade: II

Group detail: Scout Road, (south side) Mytholmroyd

Full description:
Methodist chapel c1825 with Sunday School addition of 1872. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. L-shaped. 1825 chapel to left of 4 bays with semi-circular arched sash windows with keystones and impost blocks; sill band to 1st floor windows. Set between 1st and 2nd bays and 3rd and 4th bays doorways with similar arched heads with fanlights. Attached at right angles is 1872 addition of 3 symmetrical bays under open pedimented gable. Doorway has monolithic jambs moulded impost and semi-circular arched lintel with fanlight; 6 panelled door. To either side 2-light flat faced mullioned windows. 1st floor has semi-circular arched windows with moulded impost either side of similar window of 2 lights with circular window over set within a semi-circular arch; circular window to apex; coped gable with kneelers. Right hand return wall of 7 bays of semi-circular arched windows with impost blocks to 1st floor. Interior: galleried on 3 sides carried on slender cast iron columns. Simple contemporary mahogany box pews with moulded parts on ground floor. More elaborate late C19 seating in gallery. Extremely elaborate joinery composition uniting communion rail, ministers' seats, communion table, pulpit, choir loft, and organ, all dating from the late C19. Dwarf walls extend across the whole of the frontage in hammer-dressed stone with dressed cappings topped by cast iron railings with fleur-de-lysed finials which are affixed to gate piers which have 4 pedimented faces to capping and vermiculated panels to pier.