Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Chapel and school. 2 related planning applications.

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School Attached

WRENN ID
ghost-pilaster-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Chapel and school
Address
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School Attached, B6278, Eggleston, DL12 0AJ
OS grid reference
NZ 000 238
Coordinates
54.61, -2.00148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and attached Sunday School, dated 1828 and 1861, are located on the north side of Eggleston along the B6278. The buildings are constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and tooled ashlar dressings. The chapel features a roof made of Lakeland slate with stone gable coping, while the school has a roof of Welsh slate.

The chapel is a two-storey structure with three bays, and the school, positioned to the right, is one high storey with three bays, accompanied by a two-storey, one-bay set-back storage building also on the right. The chapel's entrance consists of a central double six-panel door set in alternate-block jambs beneath a stone lintel, which supports a gabled panel inscribed with 'Wesleyan Chapel 1828' in Gothic lettering. The chapel has renewed four-pane windows above and in the outer bays, featuring flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The quoins and door dressings are notably projecting.

The school has a central six-panel door under a flat stone lintel with a fanlight above, supported by keyed voussoirs. It also features large flanking windows with round heads, projecting stone sills, and margined sashes. The eaves have paired gutter blocks. A slightly lower two-storey bay on the school has a boarded door under a flat stone lintel on the left, with a similar loft opening above it on the right, which has a slightly projecting sill. A small-banded square chimney is located at the right end of the school.

Local climate

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School Attached sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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