Coke Memorial Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Coke Memorial Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- fallen-arch-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Coke Memorial Methodist Church, Palmer Street, South Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 170
- Coordinates
- 50.95009, -2.81039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coke Memorial Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1881. It is constructed from cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a grey Welsh slate roof banded with purple and ornamental terra-cotta ridges. The south gable has moulded coping and a gabletted finial. The church has six bays by one bay, with each bay featuring its own plain gable, along with a turret and spirelet at the south-east corner and a north crosswing. The north street elevation consists of six bays plus two bays of the crosswing.
The first bay has a shouldered-arched doorway with a pointed-arched recess that includes a traceried circular window above, flanked by half-height buttresses. The remaining five bays feature almost full-height buttresses and coupled pairs of cusped lancets with transoms. The crosswing has a simpler doorway on the south return, with the gable displaying end and centre buttresses and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, along with louvred vents in the roof.
The south elevation has a gable front with a large 14th-century style 4-light subarcuated-with-wheel traceried window, while the projecting side wings contain pairs of cusped lancets. At the crown of the gable is a triple-louvred vent, below which is a band course inscribed with 'Coke Memorial Chapel.' The slim turret becomes octagonal at the eaves level, featuring shallow pilasters on the principal faces, and has slim lancet openings on the angled faces beneath a simple spirelet. The other elevations match this design. The interior has not been seen. This church replaced an 1809 chapel on the site, with Methodism having been introduced to the parish in 1753.
Local climate
Coke Memorial Methodist Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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