Central Hall Methodist Church, Walsall
Central Hall Methodist Church, Walsall
Central Hall Methodist Church on Ablewell Street, Walsall, is an unlisted town-centre Methodist church whose early Victorian building of 1849 was given a 1929 cinema-style frontage.
- Location
- Walsall, West Midlands
- Country
- England
- County
- West Midlands
- City / town
- Walsall
- Address
- Ablewell Street, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 2EQ
- Postcode
- WS1 2EQ
- Built
- 1849 church; 1929 Ablewell Street frontage
- Architect
- Brocklehurst and Company (1929 reconstruction)
- Denomination
- Methodist Church
- Style
- Early Victorian; 1929 cinema-style frontage
- Materials
- Red brick with stone dressings
- Opening hours
- Open at any reasonable time by prior arrangement. Contact [email protected] or 07580167347.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Walsall’s local list records a large early Victorian Methodist church of 1849 in red brick with stone dressings and tall round-headed windows, its original Classical front masked by a 1929 extension, with an impressive interior of good surviving features. The 1929 reconstruction as a Central Hall was by Brocklehurst and Company, contractor J. & F. Wootton Ltd of Walsall. The horseshoe worship space was once the upper gallery of a church seating over a thousand; a floor inserted in the 1970s created office space below, now used for advice and foodbank work, and the church was refurbished as a Millennium project. A Nicholson & Lord organ remains in use. The building is not on the National Heritage List for England. It belongs to the Hidden River Methodist Circuit.