Wesleyan Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1979. Church.

Wesleyan Methodist Church

WRENN ID
narrow-newel-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1979
Type
Church
Address
Wesleyan Methodist Church, James Street, Selby
OS grid reference
SE 614 322
Coordinates
53.78324, -1.069
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in 1882, was designed by the architects Waddington and Sons of Burnley and constructed by contractor George Mansfield of York. It features pink brick with ashlar dressings and has a hipped slate roof. The church is two storeys tall with a parapet on the outer bays and a first-floor string course. It has four bays, with the two central bays featuring moulded gable ends, flanked by three-storey towers topped with domical stone roofs. The building includes round-arched windows and doors, which have deep shafted reveals and moulded voussoirs. The site was donated by the Honorable E R Petre, a Catholic Lord of the Manor and significant benefactor of Selby, while the design was contributed by local philanthropist James Audus the younger.

Local climate

Wesleyan Methodist Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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