Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Church. 1 related planning application.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- other-rubblework-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, Market Street, Whitworth, OL12 8PW
- OS grid reference
- SD 884 175
- Coordinates
- 53.65474, -2.17682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, built in the later 19th century, features an earlier school attached at the rear. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan measuring three by six bays, while the school continues at an angle with four smaller bays. Both structures are two storeys tall, but the school is only half the height of the church.
The gable facing the road presents a three-bay symmetrical facade topped with a pediment. This facade includes a string course and giant rusticated clasping pilasters that are finished with panels at the top. The entrance features double six-panel doors topped by a semicircular fanlight with glazing bars, all framed by a large moulded and panelled architrave with a round-headed arch and keystone. Above this is a dentilled cornice and a plain frieze that serves as the sill for a first-floor tripartite window. This window has round-headed lights, circular lights in the heads, and a moulded archivolt with keystones. The flanking bays contain segmental-headed windows at the ground floor with stilted labels, and round-headed windows at the first floor. All windows have glazing bars and margin panes. The pediment features an oculus with a shaped surround.
The side walls of the church have segmental-headed windows at the ground floor and round-headed windows at the first floor. The school at the rear is built of coursed sandstone, with rectangular windows at the ground floor and round-headed windows above.
Local climate
Methodist Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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