North Road Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Church. 2 related planning applications.
North Road Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- stark-spindle-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- North Road Methodist Church, City of Durham, DH1 4SG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 269 426
- Coordinates
- 54.77764, -1.58257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Road Methodist Church is a Bethel chapel, now serving as a Methodist church, dated 1853 in the top panel. It was designed by E R Robson. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a rock-faced basement and ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings. It is designed in a classical style and consists of two storeys with three bays.
There are eight steps leading up to a dentilled pedimented Ionic porch, which has a panelled double door set in a round arch. Flanking the door are fixed lights with lozenge-patterned leading and coloured glass, all under flat stone lintels. Above, there are round-headed sash windows, with the central window being tripartite and stepped, situated under bracketed keyed arches and a drip mould. Sill strings run between Giant Tuscan pilasters that define the bays. The top entablature and pediment feature the inscription "BETHEL CHAPEL" along with the date, set beneath a roundel containing a spiral-spoked wheel.
Plain wrought iron handrails on the steps include plain rods and acanthus-bud principals, and there is a boot-scraper attached to the left of the door.
Local climate
North Road Methodist Church receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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