Bolton Memorial Free Church is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Church.
Bolton Memorial Free Church
- WRENN ID
- tall-cobble-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Bolton Memorial Free Church, Carr Bank, Oakamoor
- OS grid reference
- SK 053 451
- Coordinates
- 53.00322, -1.92111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bolton Memorial Free Church is a free church built in 1876 by Edward F.C. Clarke of London. It features rock-faced ashlar with smooth-faced ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles and coped verges. The church is designed in the Gothic style and consists of a three-bay nave with a west porch, a single-bay chancel, a north vestry, and a south-east chapel with a porch.
The nave includes paired trefoil-headed lights and a gabled bellcote with a trefoil-headed arch. There is a lean-to porch at the west end, a pointed south gateway with a roll and fillet moulded arch, chamfered and stopped jambs, and a wrought iron gate, with a sundial to the left. The chancel has a pointed east window featuring three trefoil-headed lights with Geometrical tracery and a returned hood mould, while the north window is similar to those in the nave. The chapel has a pointed south window with two trefoil-headed lights and Geometrical tracery, along with a small blind two-light pointed window above it. The west porch includes a three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned south window and a west door with an ovolo-moulded Caernarvon arch.
Inside, there is no structural division between the nave and chancel. A three-bay blind arcade to the west features pointed arches on cylindrical columns with bell capitals and waterholding bases. The left-hand arch contains the Caernarvon arch door to the west porch, and the ceiling has a barrel roof with one pair of purlins and a ridge piece. Notable fittings include a quadrilobe stone font with fillet moulded clustered shafts and a moulded base and basin, a full set of panelled pews with shaped and moulded ends, and a rectangular stone pulpit decorated in an early 14th-century style with leaf motifs and two pointed arches containing Geometrical tracery at the front. The church also boasts a good east window dated 1878 by Powell, along with noteworthy stained glass in the chancel north window and the nave's south and north windows.
Local climate
Bolton Memorial Free Church receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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