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Description: Church of St Paul

Address: Tuel Lane Methodist Church Tower Hill Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 2EQ

Grade: II

Group detail: Tower Hill (west side)

Full description:
DEMOLISHED 8TH JULY 1988 DELISTED 20TH JAN 2010 Methodist Church. c1900, modernised 1979. By C F L Horsfall (Linstrum, p 378). Coursed rusticated stone with ashlar dressings; C20 tile roof. 2 storeys with basement, 3 bays (5 first-floor windows). Giant pilasters on plinths support frieze and double dentilled cornice; dentil-corniced pediment. Central bay has classical tetrastyle portico with dentil cornice, glazed 1979, in front of 2 round-arched doorways, the archivolts with tripartite keystones and imposts. Windows round-arched, plain except for keystones to basement, fielded panels below ground-floor windows and archivolts as doors, and on first floor fielded panels, moulded cill band and pointed archivolts with keystones and imposts. Left and right returns: 7 bays. Round-arched windows to basement; giant windows above, on ground floor having sashes with margin glazing, on first floor having round-arched sashes with fielded panels below, keyed arches and impost band. Plain gutter brackets on table. Interior: basement: columns support floor above. Ground floor: originally a horseshoe gallery, now infilled by mezzanine floor, supported on cast-iron columns with flowers to friezes. The church is listed in Kellys Directory of 1908 but not in that of 1897, which indicates that it was built in the intervening period, although it is in the style of an earlier period. D Linstrum, (West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture) (1978) (Kelly's Directory), 1897 and 1908.