Beaconthorpe Methodist Church

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TA 3009 SW CLEETHORPES GRIMSBY ROAD (east side)

5/10 Beaconthorpe 17/9/80 Methodist Church

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Methodist church. 1913-14. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof and spire. Arts and Crafts Gothic style. Aligned with ritual east end to north. 5-bay nave incorporating 2 gabled transeptal bays to north, square-section tower to south-west corner with west door, single-storey entrance porch to south end, single-bay organ chamber to north with adjoining single-storey section to north end containing ministers' vestry to north-west, choir vestry to north-east, and stores/boiler-house between. Ashlar-capped chamfered plinth, full-height raked diagonal buttresses to angles and between bays; nave has ashlar frieze above plinth with incised panels, sill stringcourse with flush ashlar band above. Nave east and west sides: 3-bay southern section has segmental-arched 3-light windows with cinquefoiled lights; 2-bay projecting transeptal sections have pointed 3-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds, twin coped gables. Single square-headed 3-light traceried window to north organ chamber. South end: projecting ground-floor porch has flight of 4 steps with iron railings, buttresses flanking a pair of doorways with moulded ashlar segmental arches, chamfered jambs and a continuous hoodmould, double board doors with strap hinges, single square-headed windows to each side with ashlar sills and lintels; coped parapet ramped up to pointed hoods above both doors, and with ramped gablets above buttresses. Tripartite south end of nave has large central 4-centred arched 5-light traceried window with hoodmould continued as stringcourse, ashlar stringcourse and triple stepped slits above; buttresses flanking right bay with lancet with hoodmould; coped gable with embattled steps above buttresses and a central carved finial. Slightly tapered tower of 3 stages adjoins to left: full-height raked diagonal buttresses; 4 steps to west entrance with chamfered segmental ashlar arch, stepped hoodmould, double board doors with strap hinges. Single recessed slits to second stage. Stepped-in upper stage with twin lancet belfry windows with ashlar sills and heads with hoodmoulds, brick modillioned and moulded ashlar cornice, coped embattled parapet ramped up to centre of each side in a pagoda line, buttresses rising to pinnacles with square bases bearing incised trefoiled panels and surmounted by corniced caps with carved finials. Octagonal needle spire with finial. Ministers' vestry has canted west end with sash windows, ashlar lintels and sills, hipped roof. Exposed rafter ends, crested ridge tiles throughout. Truncated lead-covered octagonal louvre to nave. All windows with Arts and Crafts style Perpendicular tracery. Interior. Nave has 5-bay single hammer-beam roof with arch braces and iron tie-rods, the truss to the transeptal sections carried on a pair of tall cast-iron columns. 4-centred arch of 2 orders to organ chamber, the inner moulded order on moulded corbels. Original panelled pine pulpit with openwork quatrefoil panels. Pews arranged in curved rows. Panelled dado with moulded dado rail. Arts and Crafts stained glass, especially ornate to south window. Panelled doors with stained glass to lobby. Inscribed marble tablet at foot of tower records laying of foundation stones on 21st May 1913.

Listing NGR: TA3001909232

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