Harrold Catholic Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Chapel, residential.
Harrold Catholic Chapel
- WRENN ID
- stony-tracery-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Chapel, residential
- Address
- Harrold Catholic Chapel, the Green
- OS grid reference
- SP 950 567
- Coordinates
- 52.20093, -0.61046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harrold Catholic Chapel is a former schoolroom and adjoining schoolhouse, dated 1847, now serving as a private dwelling and chapel. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a 20th-century tiled roof with stone gable coping. The former schoolroom, located on the right side, has a doorway and a tall three-light casement window, both adorned with drip moulds. There is a rear projecting gabled wing. The former schoolhouse is on the left side, forming an L shape with a projecting gable wing to the right. The structure is one storey with attics, featuring a gabled dormer with moulded kneelers and a single light casement window on the projecting gable end. The ground floor includes a casement window and a six-panel door with a canted bay at the gable end, which has a fishscale tile roof. All windows are leaded and have drip moulds. Additionally, there is a rear projecting wing of one storey with attics and a single-storey modern brick extension.
Local climate
Harrold Catholic Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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