Former Rakefoot Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. A C19 Church.
Former Rakefoot Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- moated-baluster-quill
- 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
- Former Rakefoot Methodist Church, Burnley Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 811 252
- Coordinates
- 53.72311, -2.28733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Rakefoot Methodist Church is a Wesleyan Methodist Church built between 1866 and 1867 by Woodhouse of Bolton. The building is currently derelict and constructed of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan consisting of three by eight bays and features a gable facing the road.
The church is two storeys high and has a symmetrical design, with a pedimented facade that includes channelled pilasters and sill bands on both floors. The ground floor features coupled round-headed doorways with double panelled doors, framed by an architrave of three Tuscan semi-columns in antis. On either side of the doorways are segmental-headed windows with architraves. The first floor has five round-headed windows with archivolts, with the centre three being coupled. The pediment above contains a traceried lunette with a rocaille surround. The return walls have segmental-headed windows on the ground floor and round-headed windows on the first floor, both with coloured margin panes and archivolts.
At the rear of the building, there is a first-floor bridge that connects to the present Rakefoot Methodist Church on York Street. The interior is entirely surrounded by an oval gallery with a panelled front and a stepped floor, supported by slim iron columns with moulded plaster Corinthian capitals. The flat ceiling features deep beams and square panels. All furnishings have been removed, and parts of the building have been damaged since 1984.
Local climate
Former Rakefoot Methodist Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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