Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. Chapel.

Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
salt-loggia-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1986
Type
Chapel
Address
Methodist Chapel, Blanchland
OS grid reference
NY 957 500
Coordinates
54.84534, -2.06837
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Chapel, dated 1867 on the porch, is likely designed by S.S. Teulon. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with tooled-and-margined dressings, and features a blue slate roof above a purple base. This rectangular chapel includes a south-east porch, a south-west vestry, and a north-west schoolroom wing, all in a Free Gothic style. Notable architectural details include a chamfered plinth, stepped buttresses positioned between the bays and set diagonally at angles, triangular heads on all openings, and moulded corbels at the eaves. The gables are adorned with overlapped slab coping and elaborate moulded and gabled kneelers.

The south elevation consists of six bays, with a projecting porch in bay six that has a boarded door featuring scrolly ironwork within a double-chamfered surround, alongside the inscription 'WESLEYAN PROVIDENCE CHAPEL' and the date. The vestry in bay one projects and has a central stepped stack topped with a hooded lantern and a pyramidal cap. The main chapel showcases lancet windows and a steeply-pitched roof, which is capped by a row of fleur-de-lys and two louvres; the western louvre and the east gable are embellished with elaborate wrought-iron finials. The gabled returns display triplets of stepped lancets. At the rear, there is an extruded canted projection (used as a privy/store) at the angle of the chapel and wing, featuring a boarded door flanked by small windows.

Local climate

Methodist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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