Methodist Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1978. Church, school. 1 related planning application.
Methodist Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- high-bastion-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1978
- Type
- Church, school
- Address
- Methodist Church and Sunday School, Lowther Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 975 180
- Coordinates
- 54.54719, -3.58579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church and Sunday School, built in 1814 and later altered in 1877 by T. L. Banks, is located on Lowther Street. This building features pink sandstone in a crazy-paving pattern with ashlar dressings and slated roofs. It is designed in the late 13th-century Gothic style, characterized by plate tracery, and has a cruciform shape with a wide apse and a prominent south-west tower. There is also a smaller meeting room and a custodian's flat located behind the main structure.
Inside, the church has a deep gallery that runs all around, featuring Tudor arcading on the rail, which rests on sandstone piers that support a stone upper arcade. The capitals of these piers are intricately carved with foliage and angel heads. An organ is situated in the central east gallery, and there is a raised pulpit that is likely a later addition. A wall has been inserted below the west gallery.
At the rear, the Sunday School building, which is now used as a concert hall, is constructed of plain coursed sandstone and has some ornamental detailing on the windows.
Local climate
Methodist Church and Sunday School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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