Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1978. Chapel, school. 3 related planning applications.
Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings
- WRENN ID
- odd-vault-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1978
- Type
- Chapel, school
- Address
- Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings, SK13 7BF
- OS grid reference
- SK 030 941
- Coordinates
- 53.44452, -1.95515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former Methodist chapel and Sunday school, dating to 1855, which has been converted to industrial and commercial use in the 20th century. The front elevation is ashlar with ashlar dressings, while the remaining elevations are of coursed millstone grit. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate.
The chapel has a rectangular plan and a two-storey front facade with a three-window arrangement topped by a coped pediment with a quatrefoil to the apex. The central bay slightly projects below the cornice level. A central round-headed doorway, now with 20th-century glazed doors, is surrounded by moulded ashlar and flanked by single 20th-century bow windows. Above, a central Venetian window is flanked by single round-headed windows, now boarded.
The return to the right features watershot masonry in diminishing courses and has five windows. Console-shaped corbels are visible at the eaves. Five 30-pane windows are positioned above five 15-pane windows, both with recessed aprons. The former Sunday school, set at right angles with a gable front to the road, has a symmetrical three-window front with a quatrefoil in the gable. A central round-headed doorway with double doors and a Gothick fanlight is above a large Venetian window (also with Gothick glazing, resting on carved consoles). Single, tall round-headed windows with Gothick glazing are on either side. A small round-headed doorway to the left features a subdivided fanlight.
Attached to the front boundary are cast-iron railings with a central gate and fleur-de-lys finials. The right return has five plain buttresses, a 20th-century inserted window to the left, and a large, inserted entrance to the right. The rear elevation features a louvred opening to the apex of the gable, two central windows, flanked by two doorways (the outer ones taller), and above, a large Venetian window with Gothick glazing.
The church interior contains a wooden gallery to three sides, supported on cast-iron pillars, along with moulded plaster cornices and elaborate ceiling roses. The Sunday school's wall contains a stencil reading "Sabbath Schools are England's Glory".
Attached to the right corner boundary wall is an ashlar coping with square gate piers featuring moulded pyramidal caps and cast-iron gates with fleur-de-lys finials.
Local climate
Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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