Methodist Chapel

About

Gunnerside Methodist Church is a historic building in Gunnerside, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first Wesleyan Methodist Church in Gunnerside was built in 1789. It was rebuilt in 1866.

Hall and Zaman describe it as the "most prominent structure" in the village, and its "critical physical marker", but that "unfortunately, its architecture offers no merit beyond the gable's rose window and the stone finial at its apex". The building was grade II listed in 1986. On completion, it could seat a congregation of 700 worshippers, but by 2016 it was hosting fortnightly services with fewer than ten attendees.

It was threatened with closure in 2015, but a friends group was set up to fund running costs and repairs, and it survives as the last Methodist chapel in Swaledale. The chapel is built of stone on a plinth, with rusticated quoins, sill bands, and a band forming a pediment, the tympanum containing an plaque inscribed "WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED 1866" and a circular opening above. The roof is in stone slate with stone copings, and on the front gable is a ball with obelisk finial on a pedestal.

There are two storeys and fronts of three bays. The central doorway has...