Woodhouse Grove Methodist Church and School Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1993. Church.

Woodhouse Grove Methodist Church and School Chapel

WRENN ID
iron-niche-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1993
Type
Church
Address
Woodhouse Grove Methodist Church and School Chapel, Apperley Lane, Rawdon
OS grid reference
SE 196 383
Coordinates
53.84064, -1.7028
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodhouse Grove Methodist Church and School Chapel is a school chapel built in 1887. It is constructed of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The building showcases Gothic Revival style with raised coped gables topped with finials, a plinth, and bands.

The layout includes a nave and an apsidal chancel, complemented by a north-west tower and a west porch. The west front features a projecting gabled porch with a pointed arched entrance that has two doorways and a central pier with a blind tracery panel above. On either side of the porch are single small lancets. Above the porch, there is a tall three-light pointed arched window flanked by lancets and hood moulds, along with a small triple lancet in the gable. To the right, there is a single lancet, while to the left stands the north-west tower, which has a single lancet and a quatrefoil above it. The bell stage of the tower is octagonal, with a single lancet opening on each face, topped by an octagonal stone spire.

The north and south walls of the church feature alternating single lancets and taller two-light pointed arch windows with gable heads. The apsidal east end is adorned with three tall two-light pointed arch windows. Inside, the church retains most of its original features, including a wooden roof, a western gallery supported on columns, nave pews, a wooden pulpit, choir stalls, a wooden reredos, and stained glass in most of the windows.

Local climate

Woodhouse Grove Methodist Church and School Chapel receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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