Glaisdale Head Methodist Church and Walls is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. Church.

Glaisdale Head Methodist Church and Walls

WRENN ID
empty-rafter-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 October 1969
Type
Church
Address
Glaisdale Head Methodist Church and Walls, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 757 044
Coordinates
54.4295, -0.83314
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Glaisdale Head Methodist Church, built in 1821, features an attached manse that is no longer occupied. The church has extensions added in 1850. It is constructed of coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone and has a graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone dressings, while the manse extension has a purple slate roof. The chapel is a single tall storey with two square bays, partly hidden from the road by a projecting gabled bay of the manse, which extends further to the right.

On the east gable end, the chapel has two tall round-arched sash windows with glazing bars and interlaced heads, supported by cut voussoirs. Similar windows are found on the north and south faces. The west face features a small gabled porch with doors on two sides and a plaque above it with an oval panel and fan spandrels, inscribed: "Methodist Church, erected by subscription for the sacred worship of God, Anno Domini 1821." There is a blocked window above the porch and a small roundel in the gable end. The interior is plain, with a pulpit against the south wall, curved benches arranged around the north and east, and movable choir benches at the west.

The original attached manse has two storeys and a basement due to the slope of the ground, with one gabled bay facing the road. There are steps leading to the door in the inner corner, a late 19th-century sash window on each floor to the right, and a small basement light. A storeroom door is located below the steps. The gable end has a basement door and one high window. The manse also features a parallel projecting east extension with steps leading to a door in the angle, late 19th-century sashes to the right, and a rock-faced plinth.

The front garden wall has a heavy flat coping. To the left of the steps leading to the chapel door, there is a large square pier dated with a domed square cap that supports railings with curved heads, providing a protective barrier for the path leading up to the chapel.

Local climate

Glaisdale Head Methodist Church and Walls receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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