Bossington Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Church.
Bossington Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- peeling-lead-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Bossington Methodist Church, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 898 477
- Coordinates
- 51.21814, -3.57877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bossington Methodist Church is an early 20th-century Methodist church constructed from red sandstone random rubble, with blue glazed bricks used for the quoins and string course. The vestry features red sandstone quoins and a plain clay tile catslide roof below a gablet at the east end. A circular chimney pot made of banded blue glazed brick and random rubble is set on a square plinth with quoins at the southeast corner. The church has a single cell with a vestry at the liturgical east end, a north porch, and a bellcote on the roof ridge above the porch, all designed in the Arts and Crafts style.
The single-storey gabled porch includes a two-bay arcade that is timber framed and rests on a string course, with raking buttresses below. The entry is located at the re-entrant angle and features inner double plank doors with a side light. Above the string course, there are continuous leaded lights, and two full-height angled raking buttresses flank the porch. A small square light is positioned to the left, and the roof sweeps down over the projecting vestry, which has a single light.
On the east gable end, there are three trefoil-headed lights in the gablet, with a plank door to the left and a two-light window to the right. The south front has similar glazing and raking buttresses. At the roof ridge, there is a tiled pyramid bell-cast roofed bellcote set on a tiled plinth. The interior has not been seen, but the building is described as lively.
Local climate
Bossington Methodist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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