This former Free Methodist chapel stands on a tiny site, though well away from other buildings, at the junction of Lowgate Road and A1031 coast road.

Jean Howard, July 2022

The chapel was built in 1856 and a Sunday School added as a separate building on a site next to the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in 1871.

The building here was extended to the south-east as recently as 1991 to provide a schoolroom or meeting room with modern facilities.

The chapel closed in 2022. 

Jean Howard, July 2022

The original chapel building (to the left) was built with local bricks laid in English garden wall bond (three rows of stretchers). The simple dentil course below the eaves, the slim pilasters, the brick detail of the entrance surround, and the round-headed windows, all contribute to an attractive and well-designed frontage.

The 1990 extension (to the right) successfully reflects these features despite the use of modern machine-made bricks of random colour and their laying in stretcher bond (the inevitable consequence of modern cavity wall construction).

Jean Howard, July 2022

The date plaque above the main entrance. Perhaps the word 'FREE' has been obliterated at the head of the inscription.

Jean Howard, July 2022

This date stone above the south doorway is inscribed

H(?) - D
1764
C - W

It is not clear what this refers to. The church was remodelled on a number of occasions, including the rendering of the south wall of the nave.

June 2015

St Peter's consists of nave, western bell-cote (in red brick) and chancel, and was much restored in the 18th and 19th centuries.

September 2012

To the right of the doorway can be seen the remains of the scalloped arch of a Norman doorway.

The larger church of the medieval period also had a west tower.

June 2015

The bellcote of 1860 viewed from the north-east.

June 2015

The peculiar brick bell cote of 1860 replaced a medieval tower, presumably constructed of stone.

June 2015

There are traces of 13th century arcades in the north walls of both nave and chancel, suggesting that this was once a much larger building.

The font is 12th century.

June 2015

The robust and much repaired roof timbers of the roof with king posts.

June 2015