Chapel at Thurnham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. A Victorian Church.

Chapel at Thurnham Hall

WRENN ID
errant-chamber-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1968
Type
Church
OS grid reference
SD 463 545
Coordinates
53.98402, -2.81965
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel at Thurnham Hall is a Roman Catholic domestic chapel built in 1845. It is constructed from coursed sandstone, with ashlar stone at the front, and features a slate roof. The chapel is located on the south side of Thurnham Hall. The west facade has a gabled design with an embattled corner turret on the right. It includes a window with three trefoiled lights beneath a pointed head, which is adorned with a quatrefoil. The south wall is topped with an embattled parapet and has an embattled turret on the right that contains paired bell openings. There are three windows on this side, designed as triple stepped lancets with Tudor-arched heads.

Inside, there are statues in niches on each side of the altar at the west end. The roof trusses, supported by stone corbels, feature arch-braced collars. At the east end, there is a gallery with an arcaded timber front. On the north side, a gallery used by Miss Elizabeth Dalton includes a fireplace and a hinged screen for privacy from the tenants.

Local climate

Chapel at Thurnham Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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, 12 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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