Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. Chapel.

Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate

WRENN ID
muffled-finial-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
Chapel
Address
Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate, A595, Distington
OS grid reference
NY 004 226
Coordinates
54.58926, -3.54174
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Chapel in Distington, built in 1838, is currently disused. It features a stone tablet above the door that is inscribed with "PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED AD MDCCCXXXVIII." The chapel is constructed of snecked rubble and has a graduated slate roof. It is a single tall storey with three bays and is set back from the adjoining houses. The design is symmetrical, with double panelled doors and a boarded semicircular fanlight in a stone surround. There are also two boarded-over semicircular headed windows on either side, each within a stone surround that includes projecting imposts and a keystone. The area wall is made of snecked rubble and has semicircular copings, standing approximately 6 feet high. The central gate features cast-iron spearhead standards.

Local climate

Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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