Brown Knowl Methodist Church

Brown Knowl Methodist Church is in Sherrington's Lane in the settlement of Brown Knowl in the

Constructed in red-brown brick with stone dressings, the church has a grey slate roof. The architectural style is Perpendicular. The church and the Sunday school together have an L-shaped plan, and in the angle between them is a tower and a vestry. Facing the road, the church on the right has a five-light window. To the left is a crenellated tower with traceried pebbledashed panels instead of bell openings. Further to the left is the former Sunday school, with two gables, each of which contains a three-light window. On the rear of the building is a date stone carrying the date of 1836.^[1]

External features

In the churchyard is the tomb, dating from about 1869, of John Wedgwood and his wife. John Wedgwood was a local preacher who did much to promote Primitive Methodism locally, and was a distant relative of Josiah Wedgwood. The tomb is listed at Grade II.^[2]

See also

• Listed buildings in Broxton, Cheshire

References

Further reading

• Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew;
  ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6