Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- deep-sentry-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, Tower Hill, Williton, TA4 4NT
- OS grid reference
- ST 078 407
- Coordinates
- 51.15848, -3.31852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, located in Williton, was built in 1883. It is constructed of red sandstone, with squared and coursed stone on the front facade, rubble on the returns, Bath stone dressings, and a slate roof with coped verges. The church's plan comprises a rectangular nave of six bays and a chancel, with an organ chamber to the right and a vestry to the left. The front facade is gabled and features a rusticated apex, a rose window, and two arched windows with two lights. Stepped buttresses in the outer bays rise above the roof line as tourelles. The central ground floor is gabled, and contains an arched doorway with double doors flanked by composite columns of pink and white marble. The returns have six bays with lancet windows. Inside, a pointed chancel arch is supported by marble columns, and there is a pine arch braced roof with iron ties. A West end gallery is borne on cast iron Corinthian columns. Contemporary pews are also present. The church contains a stained glass East window and two further stained glass windows commemorating the dead of the last two wars.
Local climate
Methodist Church receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings