Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1972. Church, school.
Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- solitary-baluster-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1972
- Type
- Church, school
- Address
- Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School, Mossy Lea Road, Wrightington
- OS grid reference
- SD 538 124
- Coordinates
- 53.60623, -2.69912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School is a building dating from 1691 and 1880, with restoration completed in 1897. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The church has north and south walls, each divided into three bays. The windows consist of four lights with leaded glazing, stone hoods, plastered surrounds, and recessed plastered mullions. The western windows on both the north and south sides are likely later additions, and there is evidence of a blocked doorway beneath the southern window. An open timber bellcote is located above the west gable, and a single-storey porch was added against the west wall in 1971. To the east is the schoolroom, which has a Welsh slate roof that runs at right angles to the main roof. The south gable wall of the schoolroom features a window with plain reveals and a similar doorway to its left. Above the window, there is a stone inscribed with: 'Erected in 1691. Rebuilt in AD 1880...'.
Inside, the church has two roof trusses with ovolo-moulded tie-beams and raking struts that are now boxed with pine. An original pew dated '1691' is attached to a pew end. The history of the Tunley congregation and church was documented by W.G. Mackay in a publication from around 1980.
Local climate
Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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