Chapel to South West of Childerley Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. A C17 Chapel.
Chapel to South West of Childerley Hall
- WRENN ID
- salt-corridor-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- TL 355 615
- Coordinates
- 52.23547, -0.01633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chapel, located to the south-west of Childerley Hall, dates back to the early 17th century and is believed to have been built for the fourth Sir John Cutts, who died in 1615. It is said to have been consecrated by Bishop Heaton between 1600 and 1609. The chapel underwent restoration in the mid-19th century and again in the late 20th century. It is constructed from local red brick, with later brick repairs, and features clunch and limestone dressings, topped with plain tile roofs. Originally, it was a single-storey building with a gallery, and it has a two-storey wing to the north that may have served as priest's lodgings. This wing has an entrance facing east and includes two 17th-century clunch windows. The gabled facade on the east side has a diagonal buttress on the left and a restored seven-light window set in a four-centred arch, with a panelled and studded door below it. A drawing by Cole shows the original window and the chapel's condition. The rear stack has been rebuilt, and the side stack has been reduced and capped. Inside, there are five late 15th-century roof trusses with ogee moulding, which may have been reused from the hall during the 19th-century reconstruction, featuring 17th-century style carved jewel-stops. In the 19th century, the chapel was used as a smoking room and later converted into a cottage.
Local climate
Chapel to South West of Childerley Hall 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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