Wesleyan Chapel, Retaining Wall, Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Chapel.
Wesleyan Chapel, Retaining Wall, Railings and Gate
- WRENN ID
- floating-gravel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Wesleyan Chapel, Retaining Wall, Railings and Gate, Hill Road, Winscombe and Sandford
- OS grid reference
- ST 420 592
- Coordinates
- 51.32968, -2.8338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1899 by Foster and Wood of Bristol, is a notable structure located on Winscombe Hill Road in Sandford. It features snecked squared rubble with freestone dressings and is topped with plain and scalloped clay tiles. The chapel is designed in the Perpendicular style and includes a south porch, nave, chancel aligned from south to north, and a vestry in a gable cross wing to the west.
The low south porch has a lean-to roof and is adorned with two three-light, cusped windows and a moulded pointed arch. A corner buttress and a similar arch to the west leave the south-west corner open. The south gable showcases a five-light square-headed window beneath an ogee dripmould. The nave contains two three-light windows separated by buttresses. The vestry, located in the cross gable, stands on a battered plinth and features full-height buttresses and a two-light window under a dripmould. The building is marked by prominent asymmetrical stacks and a two-light window in the north gable.
Inside, the chapel retains original fittings, including a boarded roof with ribs on corbels and a panelled sanctuary beyond a vestigial chancel arch. Surrounding the chapel is a coursed rubble battered retaining wall topped with low cast iron railings, along with a cast iron gate and railings.
Local climate
Wesleyan Chapel, Retaining Wall, Railings and Gate receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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