Ruined Chapel on West Side of Church Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Ruined Chapel on West Side of Church Hill
- WRENN ID
- mired-porch-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Ruined Chapel on West Side of Church Hill, A1068, Alnmouth
- OS grid reference
- NU 245 099
- Coordinates
- 55.38303, -1.61367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruined chapel on the west side of Church Hill is a mortuary chapel built in 1870. It is constructed from snecked rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and dressings, except for the ashlar south doorway. The chapel is roofless and designed in a Romanesque style, featuring a small rectangular shape. The south wall has a doorway adorned with chevron, pellets, and zigzag ornaments, with the upper parts of the jamb shafts and scalloped capitals still visible. There are round-arched chamfered windows in the south, west, and north walls, as well as similar paired lights in the east gable. The gables are steeply pitched and have moulded kneelers and coping, some of which have partially fallen. The chapel was built between 1869 and 1870 at a cost of 177.6 shillings and 3 pence, funded by public subscription, as part of a plan to reopen the cemetery on Church Hill, which is the site of the ancient parish church of St. Waleric, destroyed by a flood in 1806. The chapel is included for its historic interest.
Local climate
Ruined Chapel on West Side of Church Hill receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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