Spotland Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.
Spotland Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-threshold-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Spotland Methodist Church, Rooley Moor Road, OL12 7AX
- OS grid reference
- SD 883 142
- Coordinates
- 53.62501, -2.17751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spotland Methodist Church is a church built in 1896, featuring a brick structure with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The chapel has a central entrance that leads to a hall providing access to a three-sided gallery, with ancillary rooms located at the rear. The building has five bays, with a rectangular pediment above the central three bays supported by Corinthian columns. It also features giant rusticated corner pilasters and a stone plinth. The open segmental pediment includes a central cartouche above a semi-circular headed door, which is adorned with an elaborate fanlight and lugged architraved lights on either side. The side bays are constructed in brick and have tall pedimented windows.
The six-bay side elevation showcases tall semi-circular headed lights with keystones, a corbelled sill band, and a stone plinth. This elevation is capped by a prominent open segmental pedimented vestry block that projects outward and features a tripartite classical window along with rusticated giant pilasters. Inside, the stepped panelled gallery parapet is supported by cast iron columns with foliated capitals. The interior furnishings, including the pews, screens, doorcases, organ, pulpit, and altar rail, are all designed to harmonize with the overall style of the building.
Local climate
Spotland Methodist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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