Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1989. Church. 1 related planning application.

Methodist Church

WRENN ID
wild-porch-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merton
Constituency
Wimbledon MP: Mr Paul Kohler (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1989
Type
Church
Address
Methodist Church, Worple Road, SW20 8RA
OS grid reference
TQ 232 694
Coordinates
51.41082, -0.22871
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Church, built in 1914 by Withers and Meredith, is designed in a Byzantine style. It features red brick with stone and tile dressings and has tiled roofs. The church is laid out in a Greek cross plan and has paired entrances beneath dressed stone lunettes, each containing a sunk marble rondel, with semicircular arches supported by Byzantine style columns. The entrances have panelled doors, and above them are herringbone tilework panels beneath moulded stone coping.

Set back from the entrances is a Diocletian window beneath a wide stone hood, which has eight lights divided by strong vertical mullions and features coloured glass. The gable is decorated with herringbone brick alternating with vertical stone strips and is flanked by square brick turrets that have recessed stone dressed niches. There are flush stone bands and moulded stone coping, with a central recessed niche in the gable styled similarly.

At the outer angles, there are polygonal stair turrets topped with domed roofs, featuring alternating long and short two-light windows with small leaded panes beneath semicircular heads, and herringbone tiles above. The stone cills and bands are consistent throughout. The east and west faces of the church are similar in design. The octagonal roof rises to an octagonal timber lantern, which is topped by a dome.

Inside, there is a five-sided gallery with a panelled balustrade, and the ribbed roof rises to an octagonal feature. The original seating is still present, and the organ is located at the rear of the choir loft. Stone stairs in the turrets lead up to the gallery. The attached buildings are not of special interest.

Local climate

Methodist Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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