Wesleyan Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1988. Church.
Wesleyan Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- sheer-belfry-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Wesleyan Methodist Church, Museum Street
- OS grid reference
- TM 160 446
- Coordinates
- 52.05765, 1.15
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in 1860, is designed by Frederick J Barnes in the Gothic Revival style. The building features a facade made of Kentish rag stone with ashlar dressings, while the rear is constructed of brick. It has a slate roof with moulded coped gables and finials, and a chamfered plinth.
The street facade includes a gabled west end that incorporates a porch and side wings. At the center, there is a triple pointed arch loggia with moulded arches supported by quatrefoil pillars and matching responds. The corners have clasping buttresses with gabled tops. Above the loggia is a single 4-light pointed arch window with intricate geometrical tracery and a chamfered cill band, along with a small circular window featuring trefoil tracery above it.
On either side of the facade, there are single staircases that rise outward, leading to triple arched stepped arcades supported by small pillars. The slightly projecting gabled side wings contain pointed arch doorways with moulded surrounds and 6 panel doors topped with trefoil fan-lights. Above these doorways are small triple pointed arch arcades, followed by a chamfered band and a gable that contains a blind trefoil, topped with a cross finial.
The interior is reputedly modernised around 1960 and the church is included for its group value only.
Local climate
Wesleyan Methodist Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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