Baptist Chapel with Attached Parish Room and Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1999. Church.
Baptist Chapel with Attached Parish Room and Manse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-cellar-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1999
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- SO 948 456
- Coordinates
- 52.10945, -2.0759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a Baptist chapel with an attached parish room and manse, founded in 1658, with the present chapel dating to 1843 and alterations made in 1888. A further extension towards the road now serves as the parish room, and the manse was constructed in 1888. The building is brick-built with Welsh-slate and plain tile roofs.
The chapel itself is a one-story, four-bay structure. The parish room is a two-story addition at the front, and to the right is the three-story manse, with a gable end facing the road. A two-story, two-window wing projects from the right side of the manse, set back and connected by a single-story porch in the angle.
The original chapel is red brick in Flemish bond, with a Welsh-slate roof and stepped dentilled eaves. It features tall, four-centred-arched recesses containing tall similarly-arched windows with stone cills and 7/4-pane sashes, complete with arched glazing bars in the heads.
The parish room is constructed of red brick and ashlar, with a plain tile roof, stepped raised verge, and a stepped gable with moulded ashlar coping and a finial. It has an upper window of five stepped lights with transoms and a stepped hoodmould, and a panelled band below. The ground floor incorporates a three-light window and an entrance with a double door and mullioned over-light.
The manse is of red brick in Flemish bond, with white-brick "quoins”, decorative bands, eaves, and jambs. It has decorative stone cills and lintels, an oversailing Welsh-slate roof with dentilled and moulded eaves, barge boards, and brick stacks with offsets. The windows are 2/2 sashes, paired on the ground floor, with a three-light canted bay-window to the gable end of the wing.
The chapel interior features a three-sided gallery supported by cast-iron columns and brackets with blind Gothick-arched panelled fronts. There are three tiers of pews on the sides and one at the back; a Gothick-panelled door to the NW gallery; a SW staircase with narrow balusters, curved treads, and a handrail with a spiral curtail; a pointed-arched double-door on the ground floor at the east end; a main four-centred-arched entrance at the west end; and further pointed-arched doorways. The flat ceiling is divided into squares by deep ribs springing from bosses on the side walls, with four moulded ceiling roses featuring metal grilles. A refurbishment in the 1980s resulted in the removal of most original fittings. Remaining furnishings include a candle lamp from 1843, early-19th century wall monuments, and an under-floor baptistry.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel with Attached Parish Room and Manse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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