Rode Baptist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Church.

Rode Baptist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Gate

WRENN ID
old-niche-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1968
Type
Church
Address
Rode Baptist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Gate, High Street
OS grid reference
ST 804 539
Coordinates
51.28413, -2.28121
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rode Baptist Church is a Baptist church dated 1780, constructed of random rubble with dressed quoins and a coped gable at the front. It features a continuous moulded cornice along the base of the gable and a slate roof. The plain two-storey facade has three bays, with Gothicised sash windows that have glazing bars in semi-circular headed bead-moulded stone surrounds. The central door opening is framed by a similarly moulded stone surround and has a paired three-panelled door topped with a moulded slab hood supported by cut stone brackets. At the rear, there is a single-storey, two-bay assembly room with paired 12-pane sash windows. Inside, the church has a galleried interior with a panelled and glazed entrance lobby, and the gallery is supported by slightly bellied turned wooden columns. The interior also contains late 19th-century pews and a pulpit. The forecourt features paired ashlar gate piers with plain pyramidal cappings, and a coursed rubble wall that extends 7 metres to the north and 25 metres to the south, incorporating a secondary pair of ashlar gate piers that provide access to the graveyard. The main entrance is marked by paired railed gates.

Local climate

Rode Baptist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Gate receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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