Listed Building record MWX360 - Methodist Church, Maiden Street, Weymouth

Methodist church, built 1866-7, by Foster and Wood, with alterations in 1955, from a bequest by John B. Cole. The building, in Romanesque style, is of Flemish bond brickwork and Portland ashlar to the front, brickwork and squared and dressed Portland stone to the sides and rear, with slate roofs and consists of a high nave with galleries on three sides, lower aisles, a shallow chancel, a two storey external narthex with stairs to an entrance lobby, and an undercroft. The front of the building is intricately detailed with a high gable under an enriched cornice and cresting. The gable contains an 8-light wheel window above a deep stone apron, flanked by small arched openings. Below is a four bay arcade on paired Romanesque columns to stilted arches, on pedestals with a balustrade between. These are above a doorway. The building plinth is of rock-faced masonry. <1>

Capps, Rachael, 2022, Maiden Street Methodist Church, Weymouth: Archaeological monitoring and recording for preliminary exploratory works (Unpublished document). SDO21147.

<1> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 133 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<2> DOE (HRR), 22 Dec 1997, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Weymouth and Portland amendment 1997 (Scheduling record). SWX1946.

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF076555 (Index). SDO14738.

METHODIST CHAPEL, MAIDEN STREET, WEYMOUTH

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP10386 (Index). SDO14738.

The Wesleyan chapel was built 1866-70. The colonnaded Guildhall to its right was built on the site of the Old Town Hall of Melcombe Regis in 1836-37.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1200337 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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