Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Church.
Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- frozen-plinth-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School, Sherrington's Lane, Broxton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 495 535
- Coordinates
- 53.07685, -2.75464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brown Knowl Methodist Church and the attached Sunday School were built in 1913. The church is constructed of stone-dressed red-brown brick with pebble dashed gables and has graded grey slate roofs. The church and Sunday School form an L-shape, with a tower and vestry located at the angle. The building is designed in a Perpendicular style.
The church features a five-light west window facing the road, which includes three lights under a square head, flanked by lower pointed-arched lights on each side. The schoolroom, located to the left, has a six-light window in the end gable set within a camber-arched recess that has an ogee hoodmould. On the south side of the church, there are three three-light trefoil-headed windows. The crenellated tower includes traceried pebbledash panels instead of traditional bell-openings, and the entrance has double oak doors. There is also a mid-20th century flat-roofed extension at the rear.
Inside, the church has four bays with arch-braced trusses and contemporary furnishings. The church, schoolroom, and vestry are designed to connect for joint use through pointed archways with folding doors. Originally, the church was built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel, near the site of an earlier chapel that was erected in 1836 and later demolished; the datestone from that chapel is incorporated into the rear gable of the current building. The site is also notable as the burial place of John Wedgwood.
Local climate
Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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