North Watford Methodist Church The Harebreaks Watford

Methodist Church. Multicoloured brick with stone detailing. Single storey building with a clay tile pitched roof and two bell towers. Located at the junction of The Harebreaks, Gammons Lane and St Albans Road. Some later alterations to rear. An attractively designed church featuring Arts and Crafts influences. The building was designed by a partnership of the Manchester based architect Arthur Brocklehurst and the London based architect Charles Stanley Peach FRIBA. The foundation stone for the new church was dedicated on the 28th September 1927 and when the building was completed in 1928 it was estimated to have cost £12,500.

LISTING TEXT -  ‘T’ shaped plan. Single storey church in red bricks in a variation of English bond. Eastern and western elevations have two gabled single storey extensions with stone copings and caps to buttresses. Also, four large segmental arched windows with stone lintels and dressings, stone mullions divide the window into three units each of these further subdivided by narrow mullions with geometric tracery. Recessed gable and fenestration by rear wing, which itself has further fenestration of same type on eastern elevation. Front elevation has single window of same type but wider and taller. Deep stone bands divide this elevation horizontally with lower band terminating in square brick towers which are topped with decorated masonry feature. Beneath window is an entrance porch in the form of demi-octagon built in red brickwork. Three openings in each splayed section with segmental stone heads contain original timber doors. Stone battlemented copings over the centre of each doorway. Steeply pitched clay tile roof with two principal pitched elements and chimney. Two bell towers straddle ridges and are supported by four columns and topped by pyramid metal roofs and iron crosses.

Reference    Watford Borough Council; Locally Listed Buildings in Watford 2010 page 41