Great Humby Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Great Humby Chapel
- WRENN ID
- slow-trefoil-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Great Humby Chapel, Ropsley and Humby
- OS grid reference
- TF 007 323
- Coordinates
- 52.87911, -0.50495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Humby Chapel is a Chapel of Ease to Old Somerby and served as a private chapel for the now-demolished Great Humby Hall. It was originally built around the 1680s but was rebuilt in 1754, with minor alterations made in 1876 and 1980. The chapel is constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof and features stone-coped gables. It has a single cell nave with a western bell cote. The plinth is present, and the south side has a plain door with a very low four-centred arch that has a moulded surround and a raised keystone, along with two three-light tall cavetto-moulded mullioned windows. The north and east sides each have a single similar window. The bell turret features a stone-coped gable with a finial and timber louvres for the bell chamber. The interior was refitted in 1876 with pews and a lectern, and it includes a 14th-century octagonal font with panels of traceried design. During the 1980 restoration, the ceiling was removed to expose the roof. A faculty was granted in 1754 for the complete rebuilding of the chapel by Hotchkin, maintaining its original design but reducing its size from 41 by 17 feet to 30 by 15 feet.
Local climate
Great Humby Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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