Wesley Church and Attached Library is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Wesley Church and Attached Library
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-latch-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Wesley Church and Attached Library, King Street, CB1 1LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 454 586
- Coordinates
- 52.2073, 0.12685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesley Church and the attached library, located on King Street, were built in 1913 by Gordon and Gunton of Cambridge in the Perpendicular Revival Style. The church features ashlar stonework and slate roofs, with moulded coped gables that have kneelers and grass finials, as well as a moulded plinth. It has a nave with aisles and porches, transepts, and a chancel. The north front includes a central doorway set within a projecting gabled porch supported by diagonal buttresses, flanked by four-light mullion windows. Above this, there are three triangular-headed windows with deeply moulded surrounds and unique tracery, topped by a crenellated parapet. The sides of the porches each have a pair of two-light mullion windows and a crenellated parapet. The west front features a projecting gabled porch to the north with an elaborate arch and a four-light mullioned window above, along with fine octagonal corner turrets. There are four shallow pointed arched windows in the west aisle, each with five pointed lights, and the clerestory has five pairs of two-light panel tracery windows. Each transept has a large rose window with elaborate and unusual tracery. The east side mirrors the west side.
Inside, the walls are faced with red brick and have ashlar dressings. The nave consists of three bays plus a wider single bay for the transept arch, with moulded shallow pointed arches that die into moulded piers and responds. The chancel arch is similarly designed. The interior features an elaborate Perpendicular Style wooden roof, a fine stone pulpit, lectern, and font, as well as a west gallery and contemporary wooden pews, choir stalls, altar rail, and altar. Attached to the south is a single-storey library made of grey brick, which has three canted bay windows.
Local climate
Wesley Church and Attached Library sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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