Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- lesser-tracery-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Church, New Road, Over
- OS grid reference
- TL 374 699
- Coordinates
- 52.31086, 0.01455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Church is a Nonconformist chapel built in 1810, with significant alterations made in 1830, 1917, and 1932. It is constructed of gault brick and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys, with three windows from around 1917 that have stone surrounds located on the first floor, and two similar windows at ground level flanked by two doorways from the same period. Near the left-hand doorway, the brick is inscribed with "R.A." and "1810." The adjoining school room on the right is likely mostly from 1917 and replaced a 19th-century vestry, also made of gault brick.
Inside, the chapel has undergone various alterations. It is galleried on three sides, although the gallery has been reset. The pulpit and immersion chamber are located at the west end, with two doorways leading from the schoolroom, which was formerly the vestry. The chapel contains several monuments, including those for Alice, wife of Nathaniel Gifford (1835), Nathaniel Gifford (1845), Sarah (Lee), wife of Benjamin Cattell (1818), Rev. Thomas Lee, pastor (1806), Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Lee (1816), George Prudden (1837), and Susanna, wife of George Prudden (1828).
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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings