Mow Cop Wesleyan Chapel and Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. Chapel and manse. 2 related planning applications.
Mow Cop Wesleyan Chapel and Manse
- WRENN ID
- second-postern-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent North MP: David Williams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- Chapel and manse
- Address
- Mow Cop Wesleyan Chapel and Manse, Chapel Bank, Kidsgrove, ST7 3NA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 856 569
- Coordinates
- 53.10998, -2.21589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mow Cop Wesleyan Chapel and Manse date to 1852. The chapel is constructed of ashlar with a hipped slate roof, featuring a chamfered plinth and coved and cyma recta moulded eaves.
The south front has three bays, with fixed windows containing glazing bars and semi-circular heads. C20 windows are set within the original openings on the ground floor. A central boarded door has a semi-circular head, pilastered surround, and a cyma recta moulded cornice hood. The east front mirrors the south, with three bays of fixed windows with semi-circular heads. The west front has a central two-leaf door with a keyed fanlight and a pilastered, open pedimented surround. Flanking the door are two-storey stair windows, also with semi-circular heads springing from an impost band connecting to the south front sill band. A circular first-floor window with radiating glazing bars is centrally positioned.
The attached manse is to the left, constructed of ashlar with a fish-scale tile roof and brick integral end stacks. It has two storeys with coved eaves and two bays with four-pane sashes, and a central C20 glazed door.
Inside, the ground floor contains a large schoolroom with annexes and a vestry, with removable panelled partition walls. The school was accessed from a door on the south front. The first floor is occupied by the chapel, which retains original choir stalls and an elaborate wooden pulpit. The congregation entered via the west door and its flanking staircases.
Local climate
Mow Cop Wesleyan Chapel and Manse 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 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 5 transactions since 2011
- 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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