Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Chapel.
Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- under-corner-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Methodist Chapel, Southwell Street, Portland
- OS grid reference
- SY 688 700
- Coordinates
- 50.52945, -2.44073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Chapel, dated 1849, is a small chapel constructed from hammer-dressed stone blocks with a slate roof. It features a gable facing the street and has two 19th-century 16-pane sash windows with stone sills on either side of a central gabled porch that has a slab roof. The porch contains a pair of plank doors with a segmental head. The chapel has coped gables with cross-roll saddle stones. Although it is a modest building, its street front remains unchanged, except for a later inscription reading "Southwell Methodist Church 1849" above the doors. This chapel is a complete representation of the significant role that Methodism played in the social history of the area.
Local climate
Methodist Chapel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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