Friarside Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1950. A Medieval Chapel.
Friarside Chapel
- WRENN ID
- hollow-string-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Friarside Chapel, Low Friarside
- OS grid reference
- NZ 162 578
- Coordinates
- 54.91522, -1.7481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friarside Chapel is a Grade II* listed chapel, dating from the 14th century and later. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone in various colors, featuring an ashlar plinth and dressings, along with an addition of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The chapel was roofless at the time of the survey and includes a chancel with a west addition, designed in the Decorated style.
The chancel has two bays and features a wide segmental arch on the south side, which has a wide chamfer and a double-chamfered head. To the left, there is a low ogee-headed doorway recessed under a flat stone lintel, and to the right of the door is a two-centred-arched window with tracery. The large two-centred-arched east window has lost its tracery, but there is a quatrefoil above it in the gable peak. The west addition contains a plain rectangular west light with splayed reveals, while the north elevation is blank. The original building has a chamfered plinth, and angle buttresses have been removed from the east end.
Inside, there is a cusped piscina under an ogee head in the south wall, and there is no internal division between the different construction phases. The chapel is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Friarside Chapel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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