Pickering Methodist Church
Pickering Methodist Church
Pickering Methodist Church on Potter Hill is a Grade II Italianate chapel of 1885, built for the Primitive Methodists and now the town’s Methodist Church.
- Location
- Pickering, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Pickering
- Address
- Potter Hill, Pickering, Yorkshire, YO18 8AA
- Postcode
- YO18 8AA
- Built
- 1885
- Architect
- Thomas Howdill
- Denomination
- Methodist Church
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Italianate
- Materials
- Coursed stone with ashlar dressings
- Grid reference
- SE 795 840
- Opening hours
- Summer open from 9am to 4pm Monday to Sunday. Winter open by appointment.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists a two-storey Italianate chapel in coursed stone with ashlar dressings. A pediment to the street carries a stone band reading Primitive Methodist Chapel 1885. The first floor has four round-arched windows with keystones and an impost band; the ground floor has two similar windows and a projecting doorway with a stone cornice, paired doors, segmental fanlights and pilastered round-arched heads. Wikipedia, following Pevsner, names Thomas Howdill as architect and gives a cost of £3,500, partly offset by selling the old Bridge Street chapel. The new building seated about 550, with a Sunday school for about 400.
Both Primitive and Wesleyan chapels opened in Pickering in 1885; after Methodist union the former Primitive building remained in use. The interior has a large gallery, curved pews and a brass war memorial. The church stands near Beck Isle Museum and the North York Moors Railway.