Brown Knowl Methodist Church is in Sherrington's Lane in the settlement of Brown Knowl in the
civil parish of
Broxton,
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. The church, together with the former Sunday school, is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
listed building.
History
The church was built in 1913 to replace an earlier
Primitive Methodist
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
In the United States, the Primiti ...
chapel of 1836 that was located nearby.
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Architecture
Constructed in red-brown brick with stone dressings, the church has a grey slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
roof. The architectural style is Perpendicular. The church and the Sunday school together have an L-shaped plan, and in the angle between them is a tower and a vestry. Facing the road, the church on the right has a five-light window. To the left is a crenellated tower with traceried pebbledashed panels instead of bell openings. Further to the left is the former Sunday school, with two gables, each of which contains a three-light window. On the rear of the building is a date stone carrying the date of 1836.[
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External features
In the churchyard is the tomb, dating from about 1869, of John Wedgwood and his wife. John Wedgwood was a local preacher who did much to promote Primitive Methodism locally, and was a distant relative of Josiah Wedgwood. The tomb is listed at Grade II.
See also
*Listed buildings in Broxton, Cheshire
Broxton is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains 24 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, The parish includes the Bolesworth Estate, and the set ...
References
Further reading
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{{Churches in Cheshire
Grade II listed churches in Cheshire
Churches completed in 1913
Methodist churches in Cheshire
1913 establishments in England