Chapel of St Patrick is a Grade I listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. A C8 Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Chapel of St Patrick
- WRENN ID
- outer-spire-rowan
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St Patrick, Main Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 409 616
- Coordinates
- 54.04751, -2.90268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Patrick is a ruinous chapel dating from the 8th or 9th century, located on Main Street in Heysham. It is constructed of sandstone rubble, with some consolidation work completed in 1903 using stone tiles. The chapel has a rectangular plan, and the east gable wall, most of the south wall, and the eastern part of the north wall still stand to heights of between 3 meters and 4 meters. The remaining walls are mostly just foundations. The south wall features the west jambs of a window that is splayed on the inside, as well as a doorway with long-and-short jambs. The outer head stone of the doorway is adorned with three concentric grooves above a segmental arch. Excavations conducted in 1977 and 1978 uncovered evidence of an earlier chapel that was rebuilt and extended to create the structure that remains today. The chapel is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Chapel of St Patrick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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