Zoar Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1993. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Zoar Chapel
- WRENN ID
- tattered-passage-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1993
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Zoar Chapel, Rogers Road, Swaffham Prior
- OS grid reference
- TL 572 646
- Coordinates
- 52.25783, 0.30264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Zoar Chapel is a Baptist chapel built in 1821, with later extensions added in the 19th century. The building features a plastered timber-frame structure with a southeast front made of Flemish bond gault brick. It has a pantile roof with gabled ends and a slate roof on the lean-to extension. The chapel has a single cell rectangular plan measuring 20 feet by 30 feet, with the entrance located at the southeast end and a rostrum at the northwest end.
The exterior is one storey high, showcasing a gabled southeast brick front that includes a central doorway with a two-centred arch and a fanlight featuring V glazing bars, along with a panelled door. There are large windows on either side of the doorway, both with cambered brick arches, panelled shutters, and a stone tablet above the gable that reads "Zoar Chapel Erected 1821." To the left is a lean-to extension that has a smaller shuttered window and a glazed panelled door on the far left. The northeast side of the chapel is blind, while the northwest end has two casement windows with glazing bars in the gable and a four-pane sash window in the lean-to on the right.
Inside, the chapel contains box pews and benches with shaped ends. The rostrum features splat balusters, turned newels, a moulded and wreathed rail, and a shaped back. There is a panelled dado, and the roof is ceiled. The interior also includes 19th-century wall memorials and a 19th-century chimneypiece in the lean-to extension.
Local climate
Zoar 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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