Former Primitive Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Chapel.
Former Primitive Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- watchful-lantern-linden
- 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
- Former Primitive Methodist Chapel, Market Place, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 076 371
- Coordinates
- 54.72971, -1.88316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in 1885 by George Race, is located in Wolsingham Market Place. This building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with quoins and features a Welsh slate roof adorned with stone gable copings and decorative red ridge tiles. It stands three storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay projecting under a gable.
The entrance is a boarded door on the right, topped with an overlight set in a low elliptical arch that has a dripmould decorated with ball flowers. The ground-floor windows are positioned under keyed segmental arches, while the first-floor windows are set beneath shallow two-centred arches. The second-floor windows have shouldered lintels in the outer bays and keyed round arches in the center, with all central windows being tripartite. A slit is present at the peak of the central gable. Stone brackets support the eaves, and the end copings rest on curved kneelers, topped with a carved finial on the front central gable.
The chapel has been out of use since 1983 and is currently empty, with its interior fittings removed to the United States. It is included in the register for its group value.
Local climate
Former Primitive Methodist Chapel receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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