Baptist Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1995. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Baptist Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- riven-bronze-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1995
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Cemetery Chapel, North End, Wirksworth, DE4 4FZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 288 542
- Coordinates
- 53.08484, -1.5712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Cemetery Chapel, now a cemetery store, was built around 1812. It is rectangular in shape and features a principal elevation on the west side made of well-finished coursed gritstone with gritstone dressings, while the other three walls are constructed from rubble limestone. The building is single-storey with a wide eaves course beneath an overhanging hipped roof, which is slated and has lead rolls along the ridge and hip ridges.
The west elevation includes a wide central pointed-arched doorway with double planked and studded doors, flanked by lancet windows that also have pointed arched heads. The rear wall has two larger pointed arched window openings. All window frames have been removed, though one cast iron frame with intersecting glazing bars remains inside the building. The interior has suffered fire damage and lacks notable features. This chapel is of special interest as an early 19th-century Baptist cemetery chapel, distinguished by its Gothick detailing.
Local climate
Baptist Cemetery Chapel receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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