Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Church. 8 related planning applications.
Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- tenth-clay-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Baptist Church, Main Street, Great Gidding, PE28 5NU
- OS grid reference
- TL 117 830
- Coordinates
- 52.43372, -0.35751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel. Dated 1790 on a stone plaque, with a 19th-century addition to the rear. The chapel is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a hipped slated roof, and incorporates a 19th-century red brick and pantiled roof section. It has a single, galleried storey. The symmetrical front facade is divided into three bays and features flat dressed stone arches with plain key blocks over the openings. There are two 20th-century doors with rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed, alongside a central sixteen-paned hung sash window and three similar, slightly recessed first-floor windows. Two plain stone plaques are set between the first-floor windows, with inscriptions painted black: "The building Erected by Subscription" and "For a Place of Worship 1790," with further dated inscriptions on the side walls.
The interior has a gallery on three sides supported by slender columns, with simple pine benches lining the gallery. There are two gallery staircases. In one version of the building, a 1992 refurbishment removed box pews, a rostrum, and the original brick floor, and altered a 19th-century emersion bath. In another version, the building retains box pews with fielded panels, an enlarged pulpit with reeded panels, and original brick floors, with a 19th-century emersion bath. The original chapel was founded at Winwick in 1780. Minute books and registers date from 1811.
Local climate
Baptist Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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