Methodist Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. Church hall.

Methodist Church Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1999
Type
Church hall
Address
Methodist Church Hall, Leyland Road
OS grid reference
SD 348 176
Coordinates
53.65115, -2.98652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Church Hall, originally a Sunday School and caretaker's house, was built around 1891 and has undergone some alterations, including additions from the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features slate roofs in a Gothic style. The building has a modified L-plan, with a large hall oriented east-west, a south wing at the east end, and an apsidal west wing at the center.

The exterior showcases a gabled west front that presents a striking asymmetrical design. The roof on the right slopes down to meet a set-back integral porch, which includes a lateral apse. The main section of the hall is framed by massive buttresses that rise to pinnacles with saddleback coping, surrounding a large 2-centred arched window. This window has a chamfered surround and is divided by two moulded mullions, with the lower section featuring windows of 2:3:2 lights adorned with intersecting cusped tracery, and the upper section containing 1:2:1 tall lancet lights.

To the right of the main hall, the porch features a slightly projected gabled doorway that is chamfered in two orders. Attached to the south side of the porch is a five-sided apse with a weathered plinth, weathered sill, short 2-centred arched windows with quatrefoils in the heads, a parapet, and a hipped roof. The south side wall of the building is now mostly obscured by a 20th-century flat-roofed extension. The south wing includes a semicircular apse topped with a conical roof and features continuous arcaded lancet windows, with alternate lights being blind.

The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with the associated Leyland Road Methodist Church located to the south.

Local climate

Methodist Church Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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