Longholme Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1971. Church.
Longholme Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- half-entrance-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Longholme Methodist Church, Bacup Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 812 227
- Coordinates
- 53.70104, -2.28622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longholme Methodist Church is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built between 1841 and 1842 by James Simpson of Leeds. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a low-pitched slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan measuring five by six bays and stands two storeys tall in a symmetrical Greek Revival style.
The entrance is accentuated by a tetrastyle Ionic portico with a pediment, which is approached by five low steps. There are tall double doorways located in the second and fifth bays, along with three windows at the ground floor, all framed with architraves that are shouldered at the ground level. The corners and side walls are pilastered, and both floors feature round-headed windows, with the upper windows having an impost band and archivolts.
Inside, the church originally had an oval gallery that extended around the entire space, with the pulpit located on the ground floor and the organ above at the west end. However, the interior has been altered; the ground floor has been ceiled to create a hall below and a church above, although most of the original raked and curved gallery benches remain. Historically, this church served as the center of the Rawtenstall Wesleyan Methodist circuit.
Local climate
Longholme 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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