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Description: Boulderclough Bethel Chapel

Address: Boulderclough Chapel Sowerby Lane Luddenden Foot Sowerby Bridge Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Sowerby Lane (west side), Boulderclough

Full description:
Methodist chapel. 1897 by Sutcliffe and Sutcliffe of Todmorden. Ashlar, slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays with round towers to end bays in Arts and Crafts manner. The towers each have 3 bands and a small 3-light window to ground floor; above are 6 transomed windows, stepped up towards the centre of the chapel in line with slope of internal stairs, with elliptical-arched heads and glazing bars surviving to some lights; conical roofs with finials. Between the towers is a 4-bay round-arched arcade with short Doric columns on panelled pedestals, cornices and plinths; the arches are rusticated and have keystones from which rise pilasters which support the cornice of the ramped parapet and ball finials. The parapet is inscribed "BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH REBUILT 1897". Behind the arcade is a 4-light chamfered mullion window flanked by half-glazed moulded doors with glazing bars, moulded surrounds and sunflower motif to panel on each lintel. On 1st floor, behind the parapet are mullion and transomed windows of 3 lights flanked by 2 lights, the top lights elliptical-arched and most retaining glazing bars. The roof is hipped between towers with finial and to either side, behind towers, lower and gabled; some crested ridge tiles survive; one stack, behind left tower in roof slope. Returns have squareheaded windows to ground floor, to 1st floor a round-arched mullion and transomed window with side windows in style of Venetian window, and a 2-light window to gable. Interior: contemporary fittings noted in old list description; interior not inspected at resurvey. A chapel first stood on this site in 1822.