Westborough Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Westborough Methodist Church

WRENN ID
forgotten-loft-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1985
Type
Church
Address
Westborough Methodist Church, Brunswick Street, WF13 4ND
OS grid reference
SE 232 224
Coordinates
53.69809, -1.64928
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Westborough Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1876, designed in a restrained Gothic Revival style. It features pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a pitched slate roof. The building has a gable front with moulded arched doorways on both the left and right sides, set in deep, chamfered reveals. The central window is a 4-light design with a large wheel at the top. Above the left doorway, there is a tall, square, three-tier tower that once had a clock on the second tier. The third tier has two slender louvred openings for the bell chamber, also set in deep, chamfered reveals. A corbel-table supports an octagonal spire with splay-footed ashlar and four lucarnes. Each side elevation has a transept with a 4-light window featuring a wheel, similar to the front. The side windows are small lancets.

Inside, there is a raking gallery at the rear, now behind a recent partition with a large arched opening. Similar arched openings are found on either side of the pulpit, with the right side containing the organ and the left side featuring a panelled partition with a glazed traceried upper part that also contains a large wheel. The interior includes polished pine furniture and a panelled roof that is closed at the collar level of the arched-braced trusses. The central pulpit has stairs on each side with turned balusters, and there is a similar communion rail.

Local climate

Westborough Methodist Church receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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