Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1993. Chapel, school room.
Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- steep-trefoil-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1993
- Type
- Chapel, school room
- Address
- Methodist Chapel, High Street, Hanslope
- OS grid reference
- SP 803 468
- Coordinates
- 52.11443, -0.82868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Chapel is a Wesleyan chapel and school room, dated 1828, with a schoolroom added in the late 19th century and a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of Flemish bond red brick and features a Welsh slate gable-ended roof with brick dentil eaves. The building has a single cell layout with the entrance located under a gallery at the liturgical west (north-east) end, and the schoolroom is situated at the east (south-west) end, with a later outshut added to the end of the schoolroom.
The exterior is one storey high and has a symmetrical north-east end with a pedimental gable adorned with brick dentils. A plaque in the tympanum reads "Weslyan Chapel 1828." There are two large round-headed windows with glazing bars and margin panes, along with a central round-headed doorway that features a semicircular fanlight with radiating and concentric glazing bars and 8-panel double doors. The side elevations include three 12-pane sash windows with margin panes, and similar windows are found in the late 19th-century schoolroom to the south-west. The 20th-century brick outshut has a concrete tile lean-to roof.
Inside, the chapel has a simple design with a coved ceiling. The gallery at the west (north-east) end has a panelled front supported by thin columns. There is a panelled dado at the east (south-west) end and a moulded round-headed niche in the south-west wall. The interior also features a late 19th-century rostrum and rail.
Historically, the original Wesleyan chapel is said to have been converted from a shop on this site by Mr. Panter, the innkeeper of The Cock at No. 22 High Street, and was rebuilt in 1828.
Local climate
Methodist Chapel 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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