Chapel at Bowling is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1988. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Chapel at Bowling
- WRENN ID
- third-jade-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford East MP: Imran Hussain (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Bowling, Sangster Way
- OS grid reference
- SE 175 306
- Coordinates
- 53.77215, -1.73565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel at Bowling is a disused municipal cemetery chapel built in 1886. It is constructed from coursed and ashlar sandstone with a graduated green slate roof. The chapel is one storey high and features three by two bays, with a porch at the west end and an apsidal east end, designed in the Gothic revival style.
The exterior includes a chamfered plinth and offset buttresses between the bays, along with a sill band. The porch has side doorways with boarded doors that feature decorative hinges, set under pointed arches with hoodmoulds. Angle buttresses with gablets flank four two-light windows, which are separated by pilasters that extend through a blind traceried parapet.
The chapel itself has cusped two-light windows with hoodmoulds that rise in lobes above foiled openings. The west gable is illuminated by two two-light windows with cusped and foiled tracery under hoodmoulds, which connect to form the base of a keeled shaft that leads to an empty statue niche. The gable is topped with roll-moulded copings and a stone cross, with an attached octagonal spirelet on the left side.
On the north side, there is a separately roofed vestibule with shouldered lintels for the door and windows. The chapel's apse is lit by single-light windows with hoodmoulds, and there is an iron cross at the apex.
Local climate
Chapel at Bowling receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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