Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Church Hall
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Church Hall, Chapel Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 845 782
- Coordinates
- 53.30068, -2.23364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Church Hall was built in 1863 by Hayley and Sons. It features hammer-dressed buff sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof that is stone-coped. The building includes a nave, two side chapels, and a south-west tower with the Church Hall located behind it. The front of the church, which faces the road, is two storeys high and has a four-light window with a continuous label mould underneath, as well as a sharply pointed four-light window that includes a rose and cusped tracery.
The three-stage tower on the right has a two-light lancet window at the bottom and a single lancet window above, both supported by colonnettes, with dog tooth work on the jambs. The third stage features two-light louvred bell openings, and the tower is topped with a broached spire that has lucarnes. On the sides of the nave, there are three gabled two-light windows with septfoil or octofoil upper tracery, while the projecting chapel has a large rose window. The Church Hall at the rear has simpler windows.
Inside, a door leads into a porch beneath the west gallery, which has a line of trefoil-headed windows. The gallery jetties forward and features coving. The nave roof is supported by trusses with arch-braced principals on stone corbels, along with collar and kingpost supports. A pointed chancel arch rests on short marble colonnettes, with carved foliage on the capitals; the corbels are open to the south and closed to the north. There is a heavy pine pulpit and lectern adorned with trefoil-headed panels on colonnettes. The organ, built by A Young and Sons of Manchester in 1881, is also part of the interior. Notably, the church houses a cast-iron bell, which is said to be one of only two in the country.
Local climate
Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Church Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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