Grove Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.
Grove Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- dusk-foundation-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Grove Methodist Church, Town Street, Horsforth, LS18 4RJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 237 379
- Coordinates
- 53.83694, -1.64116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Methodist Church is a Methodist church dated 1867, located on Town Street in Horsforth. It is built from coursed rock-faced sandstone and features Welsh slate roofs in a Gothic style. The church has a nave aligned on a north-south axis, with a north chancel, east and west transepts, and a unique external porch that also serves as a stair turret at the south-west corner.
The prominent porch is designed to resemble a tower and has an elongated hexagonal shape, with doorways featuring coupled two-centred arches. The left doorway provides entrance, while the right leads to a gallery staircase. Both doorways are adorned with shafts that have stiff-leaf capitals, all set within a slightly projected gabled surround that contains a foliated medallion with a monogrammed date. The porch is topped with a steeply-pitched saddle-back roof, complete with ornamental wrought-iron cresting along the ridge.
The four-bay nave includes two-centred-arched three-light plate-traceried windows, with three on the west side and four on the east side. The south gable features a large plate-traceried "west" window with five lights and a multifoil design in the head. Each transept has five triangular-headed lancets at ground level and a large plate-traceried circular window above. The church's roof is also steeply pitched.
Inside, there is a gallery at the south end and an arch-braced hammer-beam roof.
Local climate
Grove Methodist Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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