Littledale Free Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Church.

Littledale Free Church

WRENN ID
sharp-chancel-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1985
Type
Church
Address
Littledale Free Church, Caton-With-Littledale
OS grid reference
SD 565 621
Coordinates
54.05367, -2.66548
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Littledale Free Church is a disused church built in 1849 as a "Free" Church of England for Reverend John Dodson of Littledale Hall, who left the Church of England due to the Gorham judgement. The church is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a steep slate roof. It consists of a nave without a chancel division and includes a south porch. The windows have two chamfered lights with trefoiled heads. On the south side, to the west of the porch, there are three bays separated by buttresses, with the right-hand window missing its mullion. To the right of the porch is one additional bay, with diagonal buttresses at each end of the wall. The gabled porch has a doorway with a pointed arch that is chamfered in two orders, and above the door is a plaque inscribed: 'A Free Church 1849....' The east wall features two trefoiled lancets with a central buttress, topped by a gabled bellcote that has a trefoiled opening with a hood. The north nave wall has five bays separated by buttresses, with the western window being taller. The west wall includes a three-light window with plate tracery and a stone louvre at the apex, surrounded by four gabled sides pierced by trefoils. Inside, the church has a roof supported by scissor-braced rafters.

Local climate

Littledale Free Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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