Shelley Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Chapel.

Shelley Methodist Church

WRENN ID
moated-hinge-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 1982
Type
Chapel
Address
Shelley Methodist Church, Shelley Far Bank, Kirkburton
OS grid reference
SE 201 109
Coordinates
53.59448, -1.69647
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shelley Methodist Church is a Methodist New Connexion chapel built between 1785 and 1786. It features an early to mid 19th-century organ in the left wing on the south side and a meeting room wing added around 1850 to 1860 on the west gable. The building is constructed of thinly coursed rubble and hammer dressed stone, with quoins on the main chapel. It has a stone slate roof with gable copings on cut kneelers and stands two storeys tall. The original north elevation has three bays of square windows with glazing bars and a simple doorway. The organ wing includes round arched windows on the first floor of the side elevations, while the meeting room wing has two bays with sash windows. The west gable features a Venetian window.

Inside, the church has a broader-than-long plan with a gallery on three sides supported by wooden columns, accessible via stone stairs in each gable end. The organ loft and choir stalls are located at gallery level, connected to the chapel below through a cambered head opening in the original wall, with stairs leading from the choir vestry. The original gallery pews have high settle backs, some with doors, while those facing the gangway have reel backs, and the back row features 'Chinese Chippendale' pierced openings for light from the north windows. The downstairs pews and high pulpit, made of fine quality pine, date from around 1860, and the ceiling includes four simply moulded roses.

Local climate

Shelley Methodist Church receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 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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