Chapel of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. A C15 Chapel, hospital chapel.
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cobble-gold
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- Chapel, hospital chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, Carville Link Road, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 282 429
- Coordinates
- 54.78026, -1.56212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene is a historic hospital chapel founded in the 13th century. It features a 14th-century east window that was incorporated during the 15th-century rebuilding of the chapel. The structure is built from coursed squared sandstone and is currently roofless, with a rectangular plan consisting of one storey and two bays. Massive buttresses flank the blank west front, while the east window is designed as a two-centred arch, although its tracery has been lost. A dripmould is present above the east window and the round-headed north door, while the south door has been blocked. Inside, there is a small aumbry located high on the south wall at the east end. The chapel is also recognized as a scheduled ancient monument.
Local climate
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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