Lorton Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Church.
Lorton Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- seventh-flue-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Lorton Methodist Church, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 160 258
- Coordinates
- 54.62036, -3.30174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lorton Methodist Church is a Methodist chapel dated and inscribed over the entrance as WESLEYAN CHAPEL 1840. It features incised cement render beneath a graduated greenslate roof. The building is single storey and consists of 2 bays. There is a panelled door located in the gable rendered porch, and the chapel has casement windows with glazing bars set in round-arched painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Lorton Methodist Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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