Description

KING STREET
1.
942 (south side)
Wesley Church and
TL 4558 NE attached Library
4/716A
II GV
2.
Church. 1913 by Gordon and Gunton of Cambridge in the Perpendicular Revival Style.
Ashlar with slate roofs. Moulded coped gables with kneelers and Grass finials. Moulded
plinth. Nave with aisles and porches, transepts and chancel. North front has central
doorway within projecting gabled porch with diagonal buttresses. Eitherside are four
light mullion windows. Above,3, three light triangular headed windows in deeply moulded
surrounds with very unusual tracery. Above again a crenellated parapet. Flanking this
front are the sides of the porches, each with a pair of two light mullion windows and
a crenellated parapet. West front has a projecting gabled porch to the north with
an elaborate arch and a four light mullioned window above, plus fine octagonal corner
turrets. 4 shallow pointed arched windows to the west aisle, each with 5 pointed lights.
The clerestory has 5 pairs of two light panel tracery windows. The transepts have a
single large rose window each, with very elaborate and unusual tracery. The east side
is identical to the west. INTERIOR: Inside walls are faced with red brick, with
ashlar dressings. 3 bay nave plus wider single bay transept arch. All moulded shallow
pointed arches which die into the moulded piers and responds. Similar shallow pointed
chancel arch. Elaborate Perpendicular Style wooden roof. Fine stone pulpit, lecturn
and font. West gallery. Contemporary wooden pews,choir stalls, altar rail and altar.
Attached to south is a single storey grey brick library with 3 canted bay windows.

Listing NGR: TL4542558694

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wesley Church And Attached Library at Wikipedia
• Wesley Church And Attached Library official website
• Wikidata Q26555891

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)