Description

LITHERLAND LINACRE ROAD
SJ 39 NW
(east side)
9/83 Linacre Methodist
Mission
G.V. II
Chapel. Date in cartouche 1904. Red brick and yellow
terracotta with slate roof. 2 storeys, 1st bay is canted
under hipped roof, other 5 bays form symmetrical
composition. Weathered base, sill courses, cornice over
ground floor, 3-bay gable with flanking cornice and panelled
parapet. End brick pilaster strips and terracotta pilaster
strips flanking gabled centre; central bay flanked by
octagonal terracotta turrets ending in panelling and open-
sided cupolas. Top pediment with frieze inscribed: "LINACRE
MISSION HALL", relief foliage in pediment, and dated
cartouche. Ground floor paired segmental-headed windows
with central colonnettes, those to 1st bay with transom.
1st floor windows have relief panelled aprons; central
round-headed tripartite window with transom, angle pilasters
and keyed archivolt, flanking tall round-headed windows and
end round-headed windows with 2 round-headed lights and
roundel; 1st bay has segmental-headed windows with C20 plate
glass, other windows have art nouveau stained glass. Paired
entrances have panelled pilasters, archivolts and relief
spandrels; C20 hoods inserted. Left return plain. Right
return of 6 bays, elliptical-headed window with gables, end
4 bays to childrens chapel with 2-bay pedimented centre;
pediment dated 1908. Entrance hall has tiled dado. Main
hall has 5-bay arcades with round arches and rich relief
decoration over. Segmental-vaulted ceiling has similar
plaster decoration. Tiled walls now clad with timber.
Elliptical-arched recess has round-headed panel with mosaic-
work text. The mission was founded in the late C19 and the
present chapel replaces one built only a few years earlier,
which was probably on the site of the children's chapel.

Listing NGR: SJ3389196778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Linacre Methodist Mission at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q24636885

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