Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Church.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- solemn-flagstone-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, West Street, Axbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 428 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28746, -2.82027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, along with its forecourt wall, gate piers, and gates, is an early 19th-century building. It is constructed of random rubble with polygonal ashlar corner pilasters that end in thin pinnacles. The church features a coped gable front with a thin ashlar bellcote at the top and a slate roof. Its Gothic design includes a triple lancet window at the center of the front, and below this is a gabled porch with coping. The porch has a pointed arch door opening set in a chamfered stone surround, with a drip moulding above and a plank door featuring a glazed panel. The forecourt wall is made of rubble with saddleback coping, and there are a pair of recessed central gate piers topped with cross-gabled caps. The gates are railed, with a decorative wrought iron overthrow. Each side of the entrance has a short, curving section of wall capped with plain wrought iron railings and spear caps. The interior contains some stained glass.
Local climate
Methodist Church receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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