Methodist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers, Gates and Lamp Overthrow is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Church.
Methodist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers, Gates and Lamp Overthrow
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-thatch-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers, Gates and Lamp Overthrow, Sand Road, Wedmore
- OS grid reference
- ST 432 476
- Coordinates
- 51.22508, -2.81363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, dated 1817, features late 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of random rubble with a hipped slate roof and is a single-storey building with two bays. The large semi-circular headed windows are framed in dressed stone with pronounced imposts and keystones, and have bracketed sills. The cast-iron glazing bars create simple tracery, and there are plain pilasters flanking each window and along the frontage.
The central entrance is set within a projecting solid-sided portico, which has a moulded cornice and entablature. The door opening is semi-circular, with emphasised imposts and a keystone, leading to paired four-panelled doors and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. To the right of the frontage, there is an addition in a matching style, featuring a single window in a semi-circular headed stone surround.
The forecourt wall is made of rubble with dressed stone capping, and there are piers on either side topped with cross-gabled caps. The central gate piers also have cross-gabled caps and support paired wrought-iron gates. A wrought and cast-iron lamp overthrow is present, although the lamp itself was missing at the time of the last survey in May 1984. The interior includes stained glass, a gallery, ornamental plasterwork, and a pulpit.
Local climate
Methodist Church, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers, Gates and Lamp Overthrow receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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