Helton Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Chapel.
Helton Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- white-spire-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Helton Methodist Chapel, Askham, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 510 221
- Coordinates
- 54.59221, -2.75892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Helton Methodist Chapel is a Methodist chapel dated and inscribed with 'WESLEYAN CHAPEL AD 1857'. It features limestone rubble walls with raised quoins and is topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey and consists of 2 bays, with a porch set back on the left side. The straight-headed windows have 2 Tudor-headed lights set in ashlar surrounds with plain spandrels and leaded glazing. The entrance to the porch has a segmental-pointed head and a plank door with studs and ornamental hinges. The rear of the chapel, which is set into the slope of the hill, has single lights.
Local climate
Helton Methodist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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