Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1982. A Victorian Church.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- odd-passage-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1982
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Methodist Church, Harbour Road, Watchet
- OS grid reference
- ST 071 432
- Coordinates
- 51.18116, -3.32968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, originally built as a Wesleyan Chapel in 1871, is designed in the Early English style. It features squared, random coursed red sandstone with hamstone ashlar dressings around the windows, porch, and buttresses. The building has a high coped gable and a pitched slate roof adorned with finials, standing at one and a half storeys.
The east front is divided into three bays by full height angle buttresses, with the central bay slightly projecting forward. Each side bay contains two-light lancet windows with tracery and hood moulds, while the central bay boasts a large five-light window with geometrical tracery. A gabled porch, accessed by a flight of stone steps, has a cusped arched opening.
The side elevations are divided into four bays, featuring two-stage buttresses and four two-light windows with geometrical tracery. At the west end, there is a projecting section topped with a hipped slate roof.
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.
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