Montacute Baptist Church, and Front Boundary Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Baptist church.
Montacute Baptist Church, and Front Boundary Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- winding-groin-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Baptist church
- Address
- Montacute Baptist Church, and Front Boundary Wall and Railings, South Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94913, -2.71511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Montacute Baptist Church, built in 1879 by Morgan H. Davies, is a Baptist church constructed from ham stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof featuring coped gables. Designed in an Early English style, it has gable ends facing the road. The main gable includes a geometric rose window beneath a trefoil gable vent, with a cusped label in a pointed segmental-arched recess to the left. On the south-west corner, there is a quasi-turret with a gable end that has a segmental-arched doorway flanked by Gothic foliated capital shafts under a label roll. Above this doorway is a wide cusped lancet and a clock face in the gable. Leading to the first floor of the turret is an open covered stair with a pitched Welsh slate roof, supported by arches and pillars that match the doorway. There are cast iron finials on both gables and a 20th-century chimney stack on the north-west corner. The foundation stone on the front wall displays the date and architect's name. The south side elevation features four pairs of pointed segmental-arched windows under a continuous label. Attached to the rear is a seven-bay schoolroom block with sash windows below and semi-circular arched casements above, all under a continuous arched label, along with a further extension to the east. The interior has not been seen. Approximately 10 meters to the west, there is a front boundary wall made of ashlar with a plinth and angled coping, featuring square piers with frieze bands and bell-hip caps. The railings have taper points on the middle and top rails, with fleur-de-lys tops on the arch-braced standards and matching gates, enhancing the church's setting.
Local climate
Montacute Baptist Church, and Front Boundary Wall and Railings 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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