Salem Congregational Chapel, and Attached Manse, Martin Top is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. Chapel. 6 related planning applications.
Salem Congregational Chapel, and Attached Manse, Martin Top
- WRENN ID
- distant-span-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Salem Congregational Chapel, and Attached Manse, Martin Top, Long Lover Lane, Rimington, BB7 4EG
- OS grid reference
- SD 820 457
- Coordinates
- 53.90736, -2.27407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Salem Congregational Chapel and the attached Manse, located on Martin Top, is an early 19th-century building constructed from squared sandstone and topped with a stone slate roof. The chapel is two storeys high, featuring a south wall with four windows that have plain stone surrounds and semi-circular heads, each adorned with keystones and impost blocks. The two central windows are positioned at a higher level. There are doors with plain stone surrounds between the first and second bays, as well as between the third and fourth bays. A sundial tablet inscribed with "Time flies swift away" is centrally located on the facade, and the gutter is supported by square brackets. At the rear, the chapel has four first-floor windows with plain stone surrounds and a ground-floor door with plain reveals. The interior was not accessible during the survey. The Manse, built in a different style but under the same roof, has a similar appearance, featuring one window on each storey, both sashed and set in plain stone surrounds, along with another door on the right.
Local climate
Salem Congregational Chapel, and Attached Manse, Martin Top sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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