Methodist Church with Attached Rooms and Front Boundary Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Methodist Church with Attached Rooms and Front Boundary Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
spare-garret-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Type
Church
OS grid reference
ST 548 453
Coordinates
51.20588, -2.64767
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, opened in 1838, with attached Sunday School Rooms. It was enlarged in 1865 and again in 1888. The main front of the chapel is constructed of ashlar stone, with rendered sides, and has a hipped Welsh slate roof hidden behind a shallow parapet. It is two stories high with three bays. It features a plinth, panelled pilasters at the ends, a band course between the floors, a cornice, and a shallow parapet with moulded coping. The windows are semicircular arched with plain reveals, containing 16-pane casements below and 12-pane casements above, all with interlaced bars to the heads. The central entrance has a pair of 3-panel doors within a stone doorcase that has Doric attached columns and an entablature with triglyphs and a cornice, but lacks a pediment. A small, single-storey porch with a hipped roof extends from the east side. The western gable has two 16-pane sashes with interlaced bars to the arched heads.

Attached to the west is a single-storey schoolroom built of squared local stone with ashlar dressings and a gabled slate roof. A tall stone chimney stack is present. The schoolroom has three bays: the first has a pair of 20th-century doors; the second has an octagonal projection with a hipped roof and slim sash windows on three faces; and the third has two 3-pane sash windows within segmental arched openings. There are three rooflights above.

The interior of the chapel has plain plastered walls. At the east end is an organ located in a recess with a moulded arch on Corinthianesque pilasters, and a gallery with a panelled front. A gallery at the entrance end is supported by two slender cast-iron Doric columns and has a deep cove to a stripped pine panelled front. The gallery contains five rows of panelled pews. The doors are 19th-century panelled with raised mouldings, and some tinted glass is incorporated into the arched heads of the windows.

Extending eastwards from the schoolroom projection are late 20th-century railings set on low stone walls. The railings are supported by mid-19th-century stone piers with double semicircular tops; there are bollards where gates would be expected. The chapel site is believed to have been occupied by a Presbyterian meeting-house in 1740, and possibly earlier by a chapel dedicated to St Thomas Becket.

Local climate

Methodist Church with Attached Rooms and Front Boundary Walls and Railings 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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