Besses United Reformed Church Including All Associated Buildings on Island Site is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Church.
Besses United Reformed Church Including All Associated Buildings on Island Site
- WRENN ID
- dusk-lime-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury South MP: Christian Wakeford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Besses United Reformed Church Including All Associated Buildings on Island Site, Bury New Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 808 051
- Coordinates
- 53.54279, -2.29003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Besses United Reformed Church, including all associated buildings, is a Gothic revival structure dating from 1865. It is situated prominently at the fork between Old and New Bury Roads. The church is built of red brick, featuring bands, window heads, and tympana in various other colours, and it has steep slate roofs. The gable front displays a stone plate-tracery rose window set beneath a two-centred arch. The short transepts also have similar gables. The associated buildings to the east of the church feature steep gables, with one located to the north and two to the south.
Local climate
Besses United Reformed Church Including All Associated Buildings on Island Site sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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