Wesleyan Chapel, Mellish Road, Walsall, West Midlands (Demolished)

MELLISH ROAD METHODIST CHURCH
Parish: WALSALL
County: WEST MIDLANDS

Grade: II
Date Listed: 31/07/1986
NGR: SP0197899436

Church. 1910 by Hickton & Farmer. Limestone ashlar, with brick exposed on north side. Slate roof. Free Gothic style. Comprises a nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, south transept, and south-east porch with tower and spire. A basement is approached from Butts Road. At the east end is a doorway with pointed head and fleuron order flanked by quatrefoiled lozenge-shaped windows. Above is a 5-light window with Perpendicular tracery. The tower has clasping buttresses, and 3-light windows below the upper stage. This is set back with angle buttresses, octagonal pinnacles, and bell openings, and carries a stone spire. On
the south side is a pointed doorway. The south aisle is of three bays separated by buttresses. The basement windows have segmental heads and are of four lights with transom. The upper windows are of three cinque-foiled lights with flat heads. The clerestory windows are of three lights. Interior: plastered and painted, with four-bay arcades of moulded pointed arches, and round piers with capitals. West bay wider, with organ on north side. East gallery has timber front. Roof boarded above level of raised tie-beam. Trusses have wall-posts carried on corbels, and false hammer- beams. East window, dated 1910, depicts scenes from the life of Christ.
(BoE, Staffs, p 295).


Listing NGR: SP0197899436