Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1977. Chapel.
Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rubble-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1977
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Methodist Chapel, Boughton Under Blean
- OS grid reference
- TR 056 594
- Coordinates
- 51.29677, 0.94864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Chapel, built in 1844, is now disused. It features red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, presenting a simple rectangular plan with a projecting western tower that serves as an entry porch. The tower consists of three stages, with an open porch on the ground floor that has a triple moulded arch and an ogee surround. Above this is a large four-light Decorated style west window, also with mouchettes and an ogee surround, and a belfry of smaller section supported by flying buttresses topped with a helm cap. There are octagonal buttresses with pinnacles on either side of the tower and the main body of the church. The side elevations are plain, featuring four lancet windows and 20th-century basement windows. An inscription above the west window reads: "Mesley..a..n 1844 Chapel." The chancel was decorated by Dr. Dallinger, who was notable in 19th-century microscopy and served as a lay preacher here for three years.
Local climate
Methodist Chapel 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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