Somerton Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A C19 Church.
Somerton Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- standing-brass-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Somerton Methodist Church, West Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 489 285
- Coordinates
- 51.05408, -2.72968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerton Methodist Church, formerly known as Wesleyan Chapel, is a Methodist church dated 1845. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings, and features a Welsh slate roof behind a coped gable, with plain verges at the rear. The building is single storey with three bays on the front and side elevations. It has tall Y-traceried windows with simple arched labels, and the center window on the south gable elevation is shorter, positioned above a matching archway that contains a pair of four-panelled doors and a shaped solid panel with Y-tracery above. The gable also includes a quatrefoil vent and a rectangular carved plaque inscribed with "Wesleyan Chapel 1845". The side schoolroom extension at the rear has plain windows. The interior has not been seen. This chapel is located on or near the site of the original house that was first licensed in 1810 and is set well back from the road, making it an important feature in the street scene.
Local climate
Somerton Methodist Church receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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