Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. Church. 1 related planning application.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- swift-shingle-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, Church Street, Wolverton and Greenleys
- OS grid reference
- SP 818 411
- Coordinates
- 52.06275, -0.80806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wolverton Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building, rebuilt in 1892 by Even Harper of Birmingham. It features a gable end facing the street with a square tower on the west side. The church is constructed of brick with stone dressings and is adorned with decorated tracery, strings, kneelers, and coping. The central gabled pinch is highlighted with crockets and finials, and there are recessed entrances on both the left and right sides. Below the gable, an ogee hood mould sits over a pointed arch supported by stone columns. The tip of the gable is also decorated. There are strings above the ground floor and at the impost level of two tall decorated lancets, which have round windows above them. Two additional lancets with hood moulds flank the porch. Above, three gable tip vents are positioned beneath another string. The gable is coped and topped with a pinnacle. The tower consists of three stages, with the belfry on the third stage featuring louvred openings in paired round-headed windows. Corner finials rise through a short parapet, and there is a hexagonal stone base for an unbuilt steeple above. The entrance to the tower also has an ogee hood mould, and the roof is tiled with a spirelet on the ridge.
Local climate
Methodist Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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