The Methodist Church, Great Budworth, is a former
Wesleyan Methodist Church in the village of
Great Budworth
Great Budworth is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, north of Northwich off the A559 road, east of Comberbach, northwest of Higher Marston and southeast of Budworth Heath. Until 1948, Great Budworth was part of the Arley Hall esta ...
,
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. The church is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II
listed building
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.
It was built in the middle of the 19th century for
Rowland Egerton-Warburton
Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (14 September 1804 – 6 December 1891) was an English landowner and poet from the Egerton family in Cheshire. He was a devout Anglican in the high church tradition and a local benefactor. He paid for the re ...
of nearby
Arley Hall
Arley Hall is a country house in the village of Arley, Cheshire, England, about south of Lymm and north of Northwich. It is home to the owner, Viscount Ashbrook, and his family. The house is a Grade II* listed building, as is its adjace ...
. It is constructed in brick, has a
slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
roof, and consists of a rectangular building with a service wing at right angles.
[ It is now closed and is used as a private house.]
See also
*Listed buildings in Great Budworth
Great Budworth is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. The parish contains 59 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Other than the village of Great Budworth ...
References
Former Methodist churches in the United Kingdom
Former churches in Cheshire
Grade II listed churches in Cheshire
19th-century Methodist church buildings
19th-century churches in the United Kingdom
Methodist churches in Cheshire
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