The Old Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Chapel.
The Old Chapel
- WRENN ID
- patient-niche-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Old Chapel, Matfen
- OS grid reference
- NZ 029 719
- Coordinates
- 55.04208, -1.95469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chapel, formerly known as the Wesleyan Chapel, is a redundant chapel and schoolroom built in 1840. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a Welsh slate roof in the Tudor style. The building is single storey with five bays, where the left two bays serve as the chapel and project slightly with a cross gable.
The doorway in the third bay has a boarded door with a shouldered head and an unusual oval overlight with a Tudor-arched head, surrounded by a raised border. There are two-light mullioned windows, also in raised surrounds. Above the gable of the two left bays, there is an oval panel with a moulded surround inscribed "WESLEYAN CHAPEL." The roof is gabled with kneelers, and there is a corniced octagonal end stack over the schoolroom on the right.
Local climate
The Old Chapel receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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