Lower Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Lower Chapel
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-rood-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Lower Chapel, Chapels
- OS grid reference
- SD 694 231
- Coordinates
- 53.70387, -2.4645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Chapel is a Congregational chapel built in 1719, with improvements made in 1753, and later rebuilt and enlarged in 1853 and 1883. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a slate roof with stone gable copings and kneelers. It has a rectangular five-bay plan, with some later additions on the north side and at the west end. The chapel is two storeys high and designed in a domestic vernacular style.
The entrance is located in the east gable wall, which is a later 19th-century addition. It features a single-storey porch with a gabled roof in the centre and monopitched roofs on each side. Above the porch are three five-light windows, which incorporate datestones from 1719, 1753, 1853, and 1883. The south wall has a raised doorway at the east end and five three-light mullioned windows on each floor; the lower windows have chamfered surrounds and chamfered mullions, while the upper windows have thin flush mullions, with the walls having been raised in 1853. The north wall has similar windows, although some at ground level are obscured or replaced by small outbuildings. The west gable wall is partly covered by an overlapping extension of two lower storeys, which includes a door at ground level and two ogival-headed windows above. The interior has been altered over time.
Historically, the chapel was originally built by a Nonconformist congregation that had disputed ownership of an old parochial chapel, and it was constructed by the congregation's own labour.
Local climate
Lower Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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