Bethel Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Chapel.
Bethel Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- solitary-facade-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1982
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bethel Methodist Church, Carr House Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 127 289
- Coordinates
- 53.75644, -1.80795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bethel Methodist Church is a chapel built in 1853, constructed from hammer-dressed stone with a slate roof. The building is square in plan and features a rear wing that houses the Sunday School. It stands two storeys tall and has a four-bay facade. The outer bays contain doorways with flat pilasters and a cornice, while the central bays feature two semi-circular arched sash windows that still have their original glazing. The first floor also has four similar windows, and the return walls have four additional bays of windows, with those on the first floor illuminating the gallery. The roof is pyramidal and has a moulded cornice with gutter brackets.
Inside, the church has a horseshoe-shaped gallery that retains its box pews. The organ is situated within an elliptical arched recess, which has an architrave that rises from a moulded impost supported by a console. The plaster ceiling features a central floral motif with a dove at the center carrying a laurel leaf.
Local climate
Bethel 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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