Methodist Mission Church & Shops 1898-1900. By Bradshaw and Gass. Red brick and terracotta with stone dressings and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 and 4-window ranges each side of tower over main entrance to Victoria Hall, the flanking bays containing shops. New shop fronts throughout, and renewed canopy over Victoria Hall entrance, though the paired doors with bevelled glass panels are original. Tower has paired first-floor windows with banded shafts; tripartite oriel window over, and pediment carried on volutes above space for clock (now a blind panel). Flanking pilasters of tower are enriched with low relief scroll-work etc. in the upper stage. Triglyph frieze below balustraded parapet with domed, columned pilasters. Octagonal turret-like upper stage with wrought-iron screens to openings, and volutes over angles, surmounted by domed roof. 2-window outer ranges each side have windows set in raised panels; stilted arched heads, with stone incised architraves to first floor, and wrought-iron balconettes to second. Modillion eaves cornice. right-hand range then has additional bay with paired windows to each floor, and then has wide pedimented gable adjoining entrance tower, with tripartite windows on upper floors in stone architraves with wrought-iron balconettes to second floor. right-hand section is built over the River Croal, and is carried on a 2-arched bridge of rusticated stone. Main body of Victoria Hall projects as wing from rear of street range: Entrance hall with tall transomed windows to stairs, then main hall a 3 storey, 3-window range with tripartite windows to first floor, and segmentally arched 4-light mullioned and transomed windows to upper storey. Transomed windows with round arched lights to basement storey. 5-storey service range at west. INTERIOR: entrance passage leads to large entrance hall to rear of shop premises; staircases leading to gallery each side, with tall transomed windows with round arched lights.
