Former Baptist Chapel and Attached Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Chapel.
Former Baptist Chapel and Attached Manse
- WRENN ID
- kindled-stone-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1982
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Former Baptist Chapel and Attached Manse, Heptonstall
- OS grid reference
- SD 976 287
- Coordinates
- 53.75484, -2.03659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Baptist Chapel, built in 1878, is accompanied by an attached manse from around 1830, linked by a single bay of an earlier chapel house dating back to 1807. The chapel features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and forms an L-shaped group with the two-storey manse to the left, which has quoins and three bays of sash windows with plain stone surrounds. The doorway is located in the second bay at the junction with the earlier bay, marked by quoins and gutter brackets. The left-hand return wall has a coped gable and three tall corniced stacks along the ridge.
The chapel's front is defined by a pedimented gable and consists of five bays, articulated by channelled quoin pilasters and pilaster strips arranged in a pattern of one, three, and one. The central section features paired arched doorways with archivolte, flanked by two-light arched windows. The first floor has five single arched windows, all with hoodmoulds and retaining margin glazing. Above the central three bays, there is a plaque inscribed "MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHAPEL AD 1878." The tympanum includes three arched lights and a Lombard frieze. The eaves cornice is supported by moulded brackets. The four-bay return has segmental arched windows on the ground floor and semi-circular arched windows on the first floor, with a canted end beneath a tripartite hipped roof that includes a stack.
Local climate
Former Baptist Chapel and Attached Manse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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