Private Chapel North West of Swettenham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Chapel.
Private Chapel North West of Swettenham Hall
- WRENN ID
- guardian-dormer-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Private Chapel North West of Swettenham Hall, Swettenham Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 808 665
- Coordinates
- 53.19603, -2.28761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The private chapel located north-west of Swettenham Hall was built in 1852. It features a blue brick wall on the north-facing side and red brick in Flemish bond with a slate roof, comprising three bays. The chapel has a stone plinth, and the entrance to the nave, located in the north-west gable, consists of a pair of oak doors set in a chamfered stone-dressed opening with a single shaft and a Gothic head. Above the doors is a rose window designed with six trefoils. The nave windows are pairs of lancets in stone-dressed openings, featuring a common mullion and blue brick arches. Below the windows, there is blue brick diaper work arranged in diamond or cross patterns.
The canted chancel apse has three matching windows, each with pairs of trefoil heads and a trefoil light at the top. The apse is accentuated by flush quoins. A small tower, situated to the south-east of the chancel, houses the vestry, which has an organ gallery above. The tower begins as a square structure and transitions to an octagonal shape at the window sill level, featuring lancets on each face, a moulded band, and a cornice topped with short Tuscan columns at the corners. The tower reaches mid nave roof level and is capped with coped gables on all eight faces. The main roof displays an eaves dentil course and a pyramid hipped end at the apse.
Inside, the nave and chancel are integrated, separated only by a moulded communion rail supported by wrought iron scrolls. There is a turned baluster rail leading to the organ gallery. The chancel's west wall includes a stone piscina, and matching holy water fonts are positioned on either side of the nave entrance. The interior features Gothic trusses resting on stone corbels, with tie rods and exposed rafters. This chapel is included for its group value.
Local climate
Private Chapel North West of Swettenham Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% 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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