Building record HWT 084 - Halesworth Methodist Church, London Road

The building was erected in 1877 to serve as a Methodist Church with a school room added in 1909. It closed in 2018.

The building is Italianate in style, rectangular in plan, aligned on an approximately E/W axis with the principal E elevation facing onto London Road. It is constructed from red brick, laid in Flemish bond with lime mortar with traces of red colouration surviving on some of the mortar joints. The E elevation is of three bays with an imposing pedimented gable, formed in gault brick with brick dentil eaves. The pediment is supported on four banded, rusticated gault brick pilasters. The central bay opens the pediment with a semi-circular arch containing a triple lancet window above the entrance doorway. The entrance has a semi-circular stone arch with a fanlight above double doors, each with two fielded panels. The arch has a central key stone and above the lancet window is a stone date plaque inscribed The Methodist Church 1877.

The S (side) elevation is of three bays demarcated by white brick pilasters with a white brick double dentil cornice. Each bay has a tall sash with a painted semi-circular arch, of the same design as in the E elevation. There is a white brick plinth, above which the red brickwork has been cement rendered to a height of approximately one metre. The windows have painted stone cills. The building is single storey with a shallow pitched slate roof with gault coping bricks at the gables and fleur-de-lys decorative ridge tiles.

The N elevation of the church matches the S elevation but without the cement render on the lower part of the wall. The 1909 lean to Sunday School extension occupies most of the rear W wall of the 1877 church building. The Sunday School roof is red clay pantiles with a low, gault brick parapet at the N and S ends. The wall is red brick, laid in Flemish bond with two unhorned, 4 pane sashes with flat arch lintels (painted) and painted stone cills (S1-2).