Poole Methodist Chapel is in Wettenhall Road,
Poole ,
Cheshire , England. It is an active
Methodist church in the Cheshire South Methodist Circuit. The church is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
listed building .
History
The church was built in 1834 as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
Architecture
Exterior
Poole Methodist Chapel is a small building with a square plan. It is constructed in red brick, and has a hipped slate roof. The chapel is in a single storey, and has an entrance front of three bays . The central door is panelled and is decorated with a Gothic motif. The doorway is round-headed, the fanlight being filled by a board decorated with seven radiating daggers. Above the doorway is a semicircular hood mould , over which is a lamp fitting and an elliptical panel inscribed with "Wesleyan Methodist Chapel" and the date 1834. The door is flanked on each side by a Gothic-style arched window containing Y-tracery , over which is a pointed hood mould. Under the eaves , the bricks form a dentilled pattern.
Interior
Inside the chapel is a wooden panelled reading desk on a moulded plinth with an ogee cornice . On each side of the reading desk is a flight of three steps with balusters and newels . The reredos is also panelled, the central panel being wider than the outer panels, and with a semicircular head. The reredos is decorated with motifs including garlands and roses. Also in the chapel are a communion table with communion rails, and a treadle organ.
See also
References
^ Poole Methodist Church , Cheshire South Methodist Circuit, retrieved 6 June 2014
^ Historic England , "Poole Methodist Chapel (1312761)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 June 2014
^ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward ; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 529, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
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