Universal Pentecostal Church is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Church.
Universal Pentecostal Church
- WRENN ID
- sheer-mortar-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Universal Pentecostal Church, Welshpool, SY21 7LN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 221 075
- Coordinates
- 52.65997, -3.15266
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Universal Pentecostal Church was originally built as a school associated with Christ Church around 1840 to 1850. It includes a school wing and a master's house. The building is constructed from roughly coursed and squared Welshpool granite, featuring ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The master's house has yellow brick gable end stacks and a yellow terracotta axial stack with three shafts, which are decorated with vertical chevron and twist mouldings. There are iron vents on the roof of the school wing.
The structure is arranged in an L-plan, with the former school master's house located in the southern wing. The façade features three-light stone mullioned windows with heavy latticed panes that flank a chamfered segmentally arched doorway. Above, there are two-light mullioned dormer windows set in coped gables. The former school wing connects at a right angle and has a lean-to pentice along its inner face, which includes a two-bay arcade with four-centred arches and a higher arch in a gabled porch to the east. The windows in this section are also latticed.
On the gable end, there is a prominent main window set high, consisting of a tall three-light mullioned and transomed window above three single-light windows, all with heavy latticed panes. The northern elevation has two similar windows, although one has been renewed.
This building is recognized as a well-detailed mid-19th century school and is part of a group with Christ Church.
Local climate
Universal Pentecostal Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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