Locally Listed Building: Whitby Road Methodist Church, Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port (LL71)

Whitby Road Methodist Church LL71 (Previously LL EP/14) Address: Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port Architect: Not known Date: 1914 Description The Methodist Chapel on Whitby Road was completed in 1914. The building is constructed in Ruabon brick and Welsh slate and features gothic detailing particularly around the main entrance of the church. The rest of the church, such as the offices to the rear, are not so well detailed and a crude prefabricated concrete hall was added post WWII. The interior is generally plain but there is a powerful hammer beam roof in the church hall. The restrained interior of the church hall still retains its pews, organ and vestibule. Primitive Methodism was important to the town’s early civic life, being closely associated with the Liberal Party who dominated the early Ellesmere Port District Council. Condition Good. Current Use Currently in use as Trinity Methodist Church, creche and “Live at Home” project. Sources Ellesmere Port The Making of an Industrial Town, Aspinal P J & Hudson D M. Updated January 2007