Lytham Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1993. Church. 4 related planning applications.

Lytham Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
sunken-soffit-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Fylde
Constituency
Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1993
Type
Church
Address
Lytham Methodist Chapel, Park Street, FY8 5LU
OS grid reference
SD 365 272
Coordinates
53.738, -2.96361
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a Methodist church dated 1868, with alterations around 1900 and internal restoration in 1963. It is constructed with a brick core and a sandstone ashlar facade, incorporating painted stucco, under a slate roof. The building is rectangular, oriented perpendicularly to the street, and includes an apse at the west end flanked by a vestry and organ chamber.

The church is in a Classical style. It is two storeys and five bays, symmetrical in design, featuring a giant Corinthian order that forms pilasters for the slightly projecting outer bays, which contain staircases. A three-bay colonnaded screen forms a recessed porch at the centre, accessible by six steps, and is topped by a moulded entablature with dentils, modillions, a balustraded parapet over the centre, and Baroque upstands over the outer bays, finished with urns.

The interior, which was restored and slightly altered after experiencing dry rot in 1963, features giant Corinthian pilasters with a simplified entablature, replacing a former prominent cornice. The fifth bay is wider and contains a round-headed blank arch housing a Venetian window. A dome formerly covered the centre of this bay. There is a gallery at the east end. The stuccoed front facade has a 20th-century canted porch in the centre, with a large rectangular stone plaque inscribed "WESLEY CHAPEL/ 1868". This plaque is flanked by windows with shouldered architraves and triple keystones at ground floor, and round-headed windows with keyed and shouldered architraves at the first floor. The outer bays have windows with pedimented architraves at ground floor, and round-headed windows with keyed architraves and run-out imposts at first floor. All windows have early 20th-century joinery and stained glass. The first bay of each side wall is similar to the front, but with coupled round-headed windows at first floor. The south side, in red brick, consists of five bays with pilasters and later additions to the last two bays. The north side is largely hidden by later additions, including a link to the attached Lecture Hall.

The church forms a group with the adjacent Methodist Lecture Hall.

Local climate

Lytham Methodist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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