Methodist Chapel, Including Area Walls and Railings to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Chapel.

Methodist Chapel, Including Area Walls and Railings to Front

WRENN ID
muffled-copper-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
Chapel
Address
Methodist Chapel, Including Area Walls and Railings to Front, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop
OS grid reference
SS 768 077
Coordinates
50.85578, -3.75161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Chapel, originally a Bible Christian Chapel, was built in 1846. It features a snecked purple mudstone front, with mudstone rubble on the sides and rear, and a small amount of granite dressing. The roof is slate. The chapel has a small entrance lobby at the front with a gallery above. The gable end faces the street to the north-east and has a symmetrical front with three tall, narrow round-headed windows that have glazing bars; the upper panes feature gothic pointed-arch heads. The central window is slightly higher and shorter, positioned above a six-panel door with a fanlight that has a radial pattern of glazing bars. Above this window is a rectangular stone plaque inscribed 'Emanuel Chapel, 1846'. The low-pitched gable has coping on the kneelers and a granite ball finial at the apex. The left side of the building shows a patch where a former door has been blocked. Each side has a single tall round-headed window with glazing bars, and the rear end features a high oculus window. The interior contains mostly late 19th-century furnishings, including a gallery. At the front left corner, a rubble wall extends forward to the street, where it drops in height and returns across the front, serving as footings for late 19th-century cast-iron railings with spear heads, which include a central gate and line a stepped approach to the front door.

Local climate

Methodist Chapel, Including Area Walls and Railings to Front receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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