Wells United Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Church.
Wells United Church
- WRENN ID
- rusted-ember-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Wells United Church, Union Street, BA5 2PU
- OS grid reference
- ST 547 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20938, -2.64867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wells United Church is a United Reformed Church, originally built as a Baptist Church in 1827. The building features a rendered and colourwashed exterior with a hipped roof covered in interlocking clay tiles, which is set behind a parapet.
The church is a single-storey structure with a gallery and has a three-bay east elevation. It includes a plinth, a band course between the floors, a cornice, and a shallow parapet. The east elevation showcases semicircular arched casement windows with nine panes and radially-glazed tops in plain openings. The central entrance, accessed by three steps, consists of a pair of three-panel doors topped by a semicircular radially glazed fanlight within an arched opening. This entrance is framed by Doric half-columns on plinths, with an entablature above. The side elevation is obscured by adjoining buildings.
Historically known as "Ebenezer Chapel," this church was established as a Baptist Church and later combined with Congregationalists from Croscombe in 1917. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wells United Church receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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