Methodist Church, Cloughmore Road, Rostrevor, Co.Down is a Grade B listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 22 September 1981. 2 related planning applications.

Methodist Church, Cloughmore Road, Rostrevor, Co.Down

WRENN ID
gentle-bronze-finch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Newry, Mourne and Down
Constituency
South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
22 September 1981
Address
Methodist Church, Cloughmore Road, Rostrevor, Co.Down, BT34 3EL
Irish grid reference
J 181 182
Coordinates
54.09955, -6.19542
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This former Methodist church was built between 1900 and 1901 in Rostrevor, County Down, and dedicated to the memory of Reverend John Gilcriest, a local figure who promoted Methodism in the area. Following his death in 1899, his family and the congregation raised funds to construct the church, with the family contributing approximately half of the £850 construction cost. The design was by architect John Fawcett Gilcriest of Belfast, a relative of the Reverend. A matching Gothic-style hall was added to the rear of the church in 1907, designed by Samuel Wilson Reside of Newry. The church officially opened on 9 January 1901, following the laying of the foundation stone on 1 August 1900. The building closed around 2010 and was subsequently sold, being converted into a café/restaurant around 2015. This conversion involved the addition of a rear extension linking to the original hall. The listing includes the gates and railings.

Local climate

Methodist Church, Cloughmore Road, Rostrevor, Co.Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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