Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Chapel.
Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- scattered-steeple-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Methodist Chapel, Back Lane, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 996 393
- Coordinates
- 54.74906, -2.0072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Chapel in Stanhope is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1871. It features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof and stone gable copings. The building has a Greek cross plan and is designed in a free Norman style. The nave includes short aisles and a chancel.
On the south elevation, there is a gabled center with boarded doors set in double-chamfered round-headed surrounds on both sides, and keyhole windows above. Stepped buttresses with roll-moulded gablets above the eaves flank paired ground-floor and stepped triple gallery lights, which are recessed under arches. A pierced quatrefoil is located in the gable peak, along with a stone ring/cross finial. The gallery has a sill string, and the left and right returns each have one round-headed chamfered window, while the aisles have two. Moulded finials with wrought iron scrolls adorn the gabled copings of the aisles, which also feature block kneelers.
Local climate
Methodist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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