Wesley Centre
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The Wesley Centre is a historic building in Malton, North Yorkshire, a town in England.
John Wesley preached in Malton in the 1770s, and in 1811 the Wesleyan Methodist Church built a church on Saville Street in the town.[1] The building was grade II listed in 1974, and was upgraded to grade II* in 1995.[2][3] In 2015, structural issues were discovered with the roof, and the Methodist Church twice attempted to sell the building, without success. Instead, £2 million was raised to restore the building, so that the main hall would become a 600-seat concert venue. The building will also host Sunday religious services, a community cafe, and a food bank.[4]
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The church is built of pink and cream mottled brick on a stone plinth, with dressings of stone and orange-red brick, a floor band, a sill band, an eaves band, and a hipped pantile roof. There are two storeys and a front of five bays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment containing a scrolled datestone. Steps lead up to the central doorway that has engaged Tuscan columns, a semicircular traceried fanlight, a plain frieze and a moulded dentilled cornice. This is flanked by doors with similar fanlights, and the outer bays and the upper floor contain round-headed windows with Y-tracery. All the openings are in round-headed recesses. Over the outer bays is a plain coped parapet.[2][5]
See also
[edit]- Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district)
- Listed buildings in Malton, North Yorkshire (central area)
References
[edit]- ^ Challenor-Chadwick, Clair (12 October 2024). "Inside the renovation of Malton's historic Wesley Centre". Yorkshire Life. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Malton Methodist Church, Malton (1220043)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
- ^ "History timeline". The Wesley Centre Malton. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ Wootton, Katharine (25 August 2024). "Appeal to turn renowned church into community hub". BBC News. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.
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