Waterbarn Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. A C19 Chapel.
Waterbarn Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- former-brick-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Waterbarn Baptist Chapel, Brandwood Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 845 216
- Coordinates
- 53.69087, -2.23498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterbarn Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel dated 1847, located on Brandwood Road in Bacup. The building features a sandstone ashlar facade, with the rest constructed of coursed rubble and a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan, although the attached school at the south end is not included in this listing.
The chapel is two storeys high with a symmetrical facade designed in a simple classical style. It has pilastered corners, a first-floor sill band, a string course, a moulded cornice, and a pedimented gable. The ground floor includes two doorways with panelled doors, rectangular fanlights, and cornices on brackets, positioned between two round-headed windows. On the first floor, there is a Venetian window flanked by round-headed windows, and in the pediment of the gable, a tablet inscribed with "BAPTIST CHAPEL 1847" is protected by a cornice on brackets.
The side walls contain seven windows on each floor, with rectangular windows on the ground floor and round-headed windows on the first floor, all featuring altered glazing. Inside, there is a horseshoe-shaped gallery supported by slim iron columns with palm capitals, although it is now ceiled, and segmentally-curved box pews.
Local climate
Waterbarn Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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