Briestfield Wesleyan Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Chapel.

Briestfield Wesleyan Methodist Church

WRENN ID
twisted-mortar-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1985
Type
Chapel
Address
Briestfield Wesleyan Methodist Church, Briestfield Road
OS grid reference
SE 229 171
Coordinates
53.65029, -1.65474
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Briestfield Wesleyan Methodist Church is a small rural chapel built in 1825. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone, with the sides and rear rendered. The building features a low-pitched stone slate roof with gable copings and moulded brackets supporting the gutter. It is a single-storey structure, with two storeys at the rear due to the sloping ground. The front has three bays, including a round-arched central doorway with a panelled door and round-arched flanking windows that have marginal glazing.

Inside, the chapel was re-pewed in the 1860s, arranged to focus on the pulpit located against the back wall. This chapel is a good example of a mid-19th century single-storey layout and fittings.

Local climate

Briestfield Wesleyan Methodist Church receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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