NHER 18894 (Building record) - Norwich Road Methodist Church, Holt

Built in about 1850. Red and white brick, and blue flint.
Tall nave and apsed chancel in one; aisles; north-east turret. Nave has clerestory.
Chancel has large Y-tracery windows above rows of lancets. Turret has sloping rows of slit windows on stairs, beneath polygonal belfry with lancets and circular windows below, and spire above. Ornamented churchyard wall.

By Thomas Jekyll, excellent example of Gothic Revival.

Churchyard cleared and other alterations threatened.
Newspaper cuttings (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 March 1983.

April 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
1862 by Thomas Jekyll of Norwich. Yellow brick and flint with red brick dressings. Steeply-pitched plain-tile roof. Polygonal apse at E. end. Octagonal turret on N. side with steep slate roof. One and two-light windows with arched heads with 'plate' tracery. Drip moulds over upper windows. Moulded brick eaves.
Information from (S2).
H. Mellor (HES), 22 June 2017.

However, Norfolk Historic Gardens Survey (S3) say built in 1863 on site of kitchen garden of Hill House. Listed (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 27 February 1998.

Describes Free United Methodist Chapel, built in 1862 by Thomas Jekyll. The interior was Polychromatic and had a large plate-traceried rose window to the rear of the building.
See (S4) for further details.
M. Langham-Lopez (HES), 18 October 2012.

Methodist church is celebrating 150 years of worship, between 1982 and 1988 alterations had been made to the church such as a toilet and kitchen were fitted, the most recent refurbishment was the school room at the back of the church which was demolished and Loades Hall was built in its place for the community.
See (S5) for further information.
M. Langham-Lopez (HES), 18 April 2013.