Methodist Church with Railings Abutting to North is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Chapel.

Methodist Church with Railings Abutting to North

WRENN ID
shifting-basalt-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1955
Type
Chapel
OS grid reference
ST 318 251
Coordinates
51.02133, -2.97324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Church, originally listed as the Methodist Chapel, was built in 1833 with extensions added around 1900. It features red brick in Flemish bond and has hipped and pyramid slate roofs. The building has a rectangular shape with vestry rooms set back at the west corner. It is two storeys high and has a layout of 1:3 bays. The chapel side has full height round-headed windows with four panes by three panes, while the vestry rooms have a round-headed window with three panes by three panes on the first floor and a square-headed window with two panes by three panes below. A rectangular marble plaque is set between the windows.

The entrance is located to the right, featuring a door with a fanlight in the re-entrant angle of the chapel. This door has double doors topped with semi-circular lattice work, and both doorways are covered by a curved lead canopy with a decorative valence, supported by a late 20th-century section of brick wall on the vestry side. Above the chapel entrance is a ham stone tablet inscribed with "Wesleyan Chapel 1833," and another marble tablet commemorates Ann Mitchell Morris, who died in 1900.

In front of the church, there are cast iron railings set in a dwarf wall with decorative heads, extending northeast for about 20 meters and terminating in a square red brick pier, which borders the graveyard along the road.

Local climate

Methodist Church with Railings Abutting to North receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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