Former Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1990. Chapel.
Former Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- mired-plinth-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Former Baptist Chapel, Sweeney Mountain, Oswestry Rural
- OS grid reference
- SJ 284 260
- Coordinates
- 52.82686, -3.0637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Baptist Chapel, built around 1831, is constructed from roughly-coursed limestone rubble, featuring squared quoins and dressed voussoirs. It has a gabled slate roof with diminishing courses and a stone stack on the left end. The building has a rectangular plan and is designed in a simplified Gothic Revival style, comprising one storey and a four-bay range.
The façade includes two-centred pointed arches with voussoirs above double doors that have glazing bars and an overlight set in a tympanum. There are also two-light windows with colonettes leading to shouldered heads, topped with a brattished cornice and glazing bars in the tympanae. A plank door is located on the left gable end, and an original privy is attached to the rear left.
Inside, the chapel is plain, featuring later 19th-century seating and a cast-iron fireplace.
Local climate
Former Baptist Chapel receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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