Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent. (48a) Bethesda Methodist School, Hanley

The Bethesda School Rooms, Hanley
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - July 1976

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Bethesda Methodist School, Hanley

Area Hanley	Street Bethesda Street (east Side)	Heritage No. 48a	Grade II	Date Listed 01 October 1986
Building: Alexander House (Former Bethesda Methodist School)
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ8847
Description: Methodist school, now offices, 1819, upper story 1835, brick

Alexander House - former Methodist Sunday School
Alexander House - former Methodist Sunday School

Methodist School from the side (now used as offices)

photos: Steve Birks - Oct 1999

Former Methodist School. 1819, enlarged 1836.

Flemish bond brickwork with plain tiled roof. 2-storeyed, 12 bays fronting church yard, the central section advanced with pedimented gable with giant pilasters and octagonal lantern over. Pilasters also mark angles.

Windows are sashes with margin lights and flat arched stuccoed heads with expressed keystones. Upper windows of central section have entablatures carried on console brackets.

Pedimented stuccoed gable to street with blind central doorway with entablature and flanking sash windows with margin lights. Central upper window with entablature, also blind.

Inscribed in the pediment is "Bethesda School. Erected MDCCCXIX enlarged MDCCCXXXVI". Alexander House forms the south wing added to the rear beyond the former pedimented central gable, matching that to the north. Round arched doorway with margin lights below and tripartite upper windows.

Cast-iron railings with domed caps to Bethesda Street.

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