Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1990. Chapel.

Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
hollow-threshold-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1990
Type
Chapel
Address
Methodist Chapel, High Street, Yoxford
OS grid reference
TM 395 689
Coordinates
52.26653, 1.50953
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, currently used as a furniture shop, dating from 1888. It was designed by William Eade of Ipswich and built by Smythe of Aldelsburgh. The chapel is constructed of gault brick with limestone dressings and features a slate roof with stone-capped gable ends.

The structure has a rectangular auditorium with short transepts and a vestry at the east end, along with porches at the west corners. It is designed in the Gothic style and is a single storey. The west gable end faces the road and includes a large four-light plate tracery window in a rose pattern, with a small quatrefoil light above, both featuring hood moulds. A stone cross is located at the apex of the gable. On either side of the main entrance, there are small gabled porches with double-chamfered pointed arch doorways, also with hood moulds, and topped with stone lantern pinnacles. The north and south side elevations have two paired cusped lancets and gabled transepts that contain two-light plate tracery windows. A hipped slate roof covers a low square vestry at the east end.

Inside, the original roof structure remains, featuring trusses with arch braces and cusped spandrels supported by carved stone corbels. There is a hood mould at the east end over a pointed arch recess, and a plank dado. Internal porches are present at the west end corners. All seating and the rostrum have been removed, and the windows contain coloured diamond-shaped leaded panes.

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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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