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Description: Bethel Methodist Church (formerly listed as Shelf United Methodist Church)

Address: Bethel Methodist Church Carr House Road Shelf Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Carr House Road (south side)

Full description:
Chapel. Bearing date plaque 1853. Hammer-dressed stone, slate roof square on plan with Sunday School rear wing. 2 storeys. Plinth, 4-bay facade has doorways with flat pilasters and cornice to outer bays. Between are 2 semi-circular arched windows retaining original glazing. To first floor are 4 similar windows. Return walls of 4 similar bays of windows. Those to 1st floor light gallery. Pyrimidal roof, moulded cornice with gutter brackets. Interior: Horse shoe shaped gallery retains its box pews. The organ is set within an elliptical arched recess which has architrave rising from moulded impost supported by console. Plaster ceiling has central floral motif with dove to centre carrying laurel leaf.