Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1991. Church.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- dark-paling-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1991
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, Totternhoe Road, Eaton Bray
- OS grid reference
- SP 969 211
- Coordinates
- 51.8804, -0.59251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church in Eaton Bray was built in 1795, with enlargements made in 1806 and 1829, and improvements in 1864, as noted on datestones. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with stuccoed dressings, and the returns are rendered. The roof is made of Welsh slate. The building is two storeys high and has a three by three bay layout, with a later 19th-century addition at the rear.
On the west elevation, there is a plinth and giant end pilasters that are linked by an eaves cornice. The openings are round-arched, featuring architraves with imposts and moulded archivolts. The doorways have keystones, while the windows have shouldered jambs and projecting sills. The end entrances include panelled doors and fanlights, and below the central ground-floor window, there is a marble memorial for the First World War. A date plaque is located above the central first-floor window, and the roof is hipped.
The returns feature full-height round-arched architraves that enclose the ground and first-floor windows. Inside, there is a gallery around three sides supported by slender columns with a panelled front. The interior also includes wall panelling, panelled doors, and panelled box piers from 1864. The roof is supported by braced king-post trusses and has 1864 board underdrawing. There is a wall monument dedicated to James Bottoms, who died in 1817, and his wife, who died in 1839.
Local climate
Methodist Church 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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