Site:   

Former Methodist Church,

Ipsley Street

Grid Reference:    

SP 0441 6742

Description:

Primitive Methodist Chapel, now kitchen and bathroom showroom. 1890 by M.J. Butcher of Birmingham, with front end rebuilt in the late 20th century. Brick with stone and blue brick dressings. 4-bay aisled nave aligned north/south with apsidal east end (originally for pulpit). Pilaster buttresses with offsets articulate bays. Two storeys. Lancets, mainly paired in side elevations. Hoodmoulds at south end. Leaded glass to main windows and multi-paned timber windows to basement storey. Original latticed glass in aisle and north end windows incorporates foliated decoration.  

Significance:

Although the front end has been unsympathetically rebuilt, this chapel retains much of its original character externally and its north elevation makes a distinctive statement on the approach to Ipsley Street from the town centre. It is very prominently located and forms an important group with Millsborough House (qv) and the Warwick Arms Hotel (qv) that anchors the somewhat desultory structures that survive in the immediate vicinity, helping to create a visual link between the town centre and the Smallwood district beyond.

History:

This building........