Carey Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Carey Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1991
Type
Chapel
Address
Carey Baptist Chapel, Pole Street, PR1 1DX
OS grid reference
SD 543 295
Coordinates
53.76069, -2.69402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Carey Baptist Chapel is a building originally constructed in 1826 as a chapel for Methodists of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and it has since been altered. The chapel is made of brick with a scored stucco facade and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with a short lean-to extension at the west end and a gable facing the road. The structure is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical facade with three windows, corner pilasters, an impost band at the ground floor, a sill-band at the first floor, and a gable that is treated as a pediment.

The ground floor includes three doorways: the central doorway is segmental-headed with panelled double-doors beneath a two-light fanlight, while the outer doorways are round-headed with panelled doors under fanlights featuring radiating glazing bars. All doorways have moulded surrounds with keystones. The first floor has round-headed windows, each with coloured margin panes and moulded surrounds that include imposts and keystones. The pediment features a central tablet inscribed with "CAREY BAPTIST," flanked by circular vents. The side walls originally had four tall segmental-headed windows with coloured margin panes, but the fourth window on the south side is now covered by a 20th-century addition.

Inside, the former horseshoe gallery has been reduced to a curved gallery at the east end, supported by slender cast-iron columns and featuring a panelled front. The interior also includes a dentilled cornice, a panelled ceiling, moulded window surrounds, and a Corinthian pilastered architrave at the west end opening, which has a modillioned cornice and a frieze inscribed with "ONE LORD ONE FAITH ONE BAPTISM."

Local climate

Carey Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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