Great Horton Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.

Great Horton Methodist Church

WRENN ID
distant-cornice-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Church
Address
Great Horton Methodist Church, Great Horton Road
OS grid reference
SE 142 317
Coordinates
53.78161, -1.78507
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Horton Methodist Church is a substantial church built in 1814 and renovated, with a likely refronting in 1862. It is set back from the road and constructed of fine quality sandstone ashlar, featuring an impressive temple-style elevation. The church has a tetrastyle giant Corinthian portico in antis, with quoin pilasters flanking one window in the side bays, topped by ornate swagged handle urns above a mutule cornice of a deep entablature. Above the portico is a large bracketed pediment that contains a date cartouche in a scrolled surround with an anthemion crest, and it is crowned by an anthemion acroterion. The flanking bays feature segmental arched windows with eared architrave surrounds on the ground floor, while the first-floor windows are pilaster-framed with segmental pediments. The wall in antis has archivolt arched windows, a sill band, and panelled aprons, along with three archivolt arched doorways that have console keystones. One bay has quoin pilastered returns with similar fenestration to the end bays of the front, while the rest of the side windows are archivolt arched. The interior of the church has been modernised.

Local climate

Great Horton Methodist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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