Bath Road Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1980. Methodist chapel.

Bath Road Methodist Church

WRENN ID
sunken-facade-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1980
Type
Methodist chapel
Address
Bath Road Methodist Church, South Swindon, SN1 4BA
OS grid reference
SU 153 837
Coordinates
51.55285, -1.77936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bath Road Methodist Church is a Methodist chapel built around 1880 by Bromilow and Cheers of Liverpool, with alterations made in 1983. The church is constructed from coursed rock-faced limestone with ashlar Bath dressings set in black mortar, topped with a 20th-century blue tile roof featuring crested ridges. The building has a forebuilding with apsidal ends leading to the chapel, which includes a ritual-east crossing and a presbytery, along with side vestries and lower floor accommodation for mixed use. Designed in the Gothic revival style, the entrance door is raised and accessible via a ramp. The windows are deeply recessed and flanked by turrets that frame the elevation, with a balustrade walk connecting the turrets above the windows. The apses feature transomed lancets leading to stairs and a recessed timber glazed arcade beneath wide eaves. The nave contains transomed lancets, while the flush transept gables are adorned with a rose window and lancets under hood moulding. Inside, the church boasts an arch-braced roof with decorative hammer beams, a west gallery, and late 19th-century stained glass, though extensive alterations were made to the interior in 1983.

Local climate

Bath Road Methodist Church receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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