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Wetherby Methodist Church is an active
Methodist Church of Great Britain The Methodist Church of Great Britain is a Protestantism, Protestant List of Christian denominations, Christian denomination in Britain, and the mother church to Methodism, Methodists worldwide. It participates in the World Methodist Council. M ...
church in
Wetherby Wetherby ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire and lies approximately from Leeds city centre, from ...
,
West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and De ...
, England. The present church is on Bank Street and replaces earlier chapels on North Street and Victoria Street. The church is
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, having been designated so on 30 April 1982.


History

The present building opened on 30 October 1829 and was built at a cost of £720. The building replaces previous Methodist churches, one on North Street which has been demolished and is now a car park and another on Victoria Street which is now in use as commercial premises. The church received a grant from the
National Churches Trust The National Churches Trust, formerly the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, is a British Charitable organization#United Kingdom, registered charity whose aim is to "promote and support church buildings of historic, architectural and community ...
for £10,000 in 2010 The present church was refurbished in 2012.


Architecture

The present building dates from 1829 and is of two storeys and built of
Ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...
magnesian limestone The Magnesian Limestone is a suite of carbonate rocks in north-east England dating from the Permian period. The outcrop stretches from Nottingham northwards through Yorkshire and into County Durham where it is exposed along the coast between Ha ...
with a Welsh slate roof. The interior has galleries on three sides as well as behind the pulpit. There are later single storey extensions to the rear, which contains a church centre. There is a small garden to the rear.


See also

* Listed buildings in Wetherby


References


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Wetherby Methodist
{{Wetherby, state=collapsed Churches in Leeds Methodist churches in West Yorkshire Listed buildings in Wetherby Grade II listed churches in West Yorkshire 19th-century Methodist church buildings