Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1998. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- patient-bracket-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- SD 343 162
- Coordinates
- 53.63886, -2.99498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1888. It is constructed of glazed red brick with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The church is designed in the Romanesque style and has a conventional east-west axis that is reversed. The layout includes a nave with an octagonal tower at the southeast corner, which is embraced by a porch on the east side and an apse on the south side, along with north and south transepts and a short chancel.
The exterior showcases a gabled east facade of the nave, framed by straight buttresses with saddleback coping. This facade has tall round-headed lancet windows arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, separated by pilaster strips, with carved panels below the central pair of windows and an oculus in the gable above them. To the left, there is a gabled porch featuring a large round-headed open arch at the front and smaller arches on each side, all supported by clustered shafts with carved capitals. Behind the porch rises a narrow octagonal tower, which has moulded ribs at the angles, a string course that defines an upper stage with small round-headed windows on each side, a slightly oversailing parapet, an octagonal belfry stage with small mullioned 2-light openings below taller round-headed belfry louvres, and a steep octagonal roof topped with a finial. Attached to the south side of the tower is a semicircular apse with narrow round-headed windows arranged in an arcade, featuring shafts at the angles, a simplified Lombard frieze, a coped parapet, and a semi-conical lead roof. The side walls of the nave and the transepts have narrow round-headed windows, with paired windows in the gable walls of the transepts.
The interior includes stained glass.
Local climate
Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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