Bethel Methodist Church with Integral Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Church, Sunday School.
Bethel Methodist Church with Integral Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- hidden-banister-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1982
- Type
- Church, Sunday School
- Address
- Bethel Methodist Church with Integral Sunday School, Halifax Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 229
- Coordinates
- 53.70243, -1.78389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bethel Methodist Church with integral Sunday School was built in 1905 by John Wills and Son. This sandstone 'brick', ashlar dressed church is designed in the Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style and includes a Sunday School on the east side. The church features a southwest corner tower with clasping buttresses and shaped oriels at the parapet, topped with a short tiled spire. It has a large nave clerestorey and low aisles, with slate roofs that have overhanging eaves. The windows showcase free style Perpendicular tracery, including a large west window above a projecting porch. The Arts and Crafts leadwork enhances the glazing of the lights. The adjoining hall and Sunday School display asymmetrical gables and stepped crenelation at the parapets, with a square tower at the southeast corner topped by a tent-pyramid roof and lead mast-finial. The hall also features a large perpendicular window, and the roofs throughout are slate with overhanging eaves.
Local climate
Bethel Methodist Church with Integral Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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