Methodist Church and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Church.
Methodist Church and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- noble-window-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church and Attached Railings, Gulworthy
- OS grid reference
- SX 445 698
- Coordinates
- 50.50738, -4.19323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, dated 1861, is constructed of rubble that is rendered and lined out, topped with a slate roof featuring bargeboards on the front gable end. It has a single auditorium layout with the entrance located at the liturgical west end beneath a gallery. The building is single storey with a basement, and the gable end facing the road displays a triple lancet window, with the central lancet being taller. Above this is a pointed arched breather, and there is a central pointed arched doorway with double doors flanked by plain rails. The front area is enclosed by trefoil-headed railings with double gates made of cast iron, set on a granite rubble wall topped with granite coping. Each side of the church has three lancet windows, while the right side includes a basement, which is set into the slope of the ground, featuring a 4-centred arched door and three triangular-headed 2-light casements, each with five panes.
Inside, there is a blind pointed arch on the rear end wall with a hood-mould and corbels at the inner springing of the arch. The roof consists of three bays with arched braces and collars, which are chamfered and ceiled above. The church contains a full set of box pews, a reading desk supported by chamfered piers with cusped panels at the front, along with a candelabra and communion rail. An upper gallery encircles the front and sides, supported by chamfered piers, with a staircase located at the front right and a moulded handrail along the front of the gallery. The entrance at the front is boxed and panelled, featuring a 4-panelled door on each side, with the panelling sweeping down to the sides.
Local climate
Methodist Church and Attached Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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