Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1967. Chapel. 4 related planning applications.
Independent Chapel
- WRENN ID
- errant-jamb-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1967
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Independent Chapel, Chapel Brow, Charlesworth, SK13 5HH
- OS grid reference
- SK 010 927
- Coordinates
- 53.43147, -1.98557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Independent Chapel, built in 1797, is located on the site of St Mary Magdelen's Chapel. It is constructed from coursed rubble gritstone with gritstone dressings and features a stone slate roof, complete with a gritstone bellcote on the north gable and a gritstone stack on the south gable. The chapel is two storeys high and has chamfered angle quions and a square sectioned string course at the first floor level.
On the north elevation, the ground floor features a central Venetian window flanked by doorways, each with plain dressed stone jambs and lintels, leading to 20th-century double doors. The first floor has a central Venetian window with large window openings on either side, all having plain dressed stone surrounds and wooden cross windows. Above the Venetian window is a small tablet inscribed with "CC/1797."
The side walls have regular rectangular window openings, with five bays on the west side and four bays on the east side. The east side windows lack dressed stone jambs, while most windows on both sides are fitted with 19th-century wooden cross windows, except for two on the west side that feature stained glass.
Local climate
Independent Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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 — 4 applications
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