Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- noble-buttress-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Chapel, Main Street, Swannington, LE67 8QJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 414 162
- Coordinates
- 52.74214, -1.38697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This Methodist church and attached parish room was built in 1909 and extended around 1925, designed by Withers & Meredith. It is constructed of red brick with half-timbered gables, ashlar dressings, and a plain tile roof. A square bellcote with a pyramidal copper roof sits atop the building. The church’s nave features internal gabled transepts and a projecting eastern porch. The eastern facade displays a projecting, buttressed porch with an ashlar coped parapet and double, part-glazed doors. An inscription on the ashlar lintel reads "WESLEYAN CHURCH 1909." Above the entrance are single, two-light windows. The gable above is half-timbered with pebble-dashed infill and contains a large, central, six-light panel tracery window. The south front has two, three-light panel tracery windows under segmental arches. A slightly projecting gabled transept is positioned to the right, while a large, five-light panel tracery window under a four-centred arch is to the left. The transept has brick pilaster buttresses and a pebble-dashed front. The west front features a single, five-light panel tracery window under a segmental arch. Adjoining this is a projecting church room wing with a double hipped roof and three, two-light casement windows. The north front has a large gable to the church hall (on the left) with a central, graduated, five-light panel tracery window in a half-timbered gable. To the right is a plank door and a two-light casement window. The west return has a single, three-light panel tracery window under a segmental arch. The south front of the church hall features three, three-light windows. The interior retains original features, including pews, a pulpit, an altar rail, dado panelling, and good contemporary stained glass. Sliding panelled doors lead to the church hall, and the boarded roof displays exposed decorative roof trusses.
Local climate
Methodist Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 6 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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