Congregational Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1975. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Congregational Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gentle-corner-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1975
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Congregational Chapel, Plummers Road, Fordham, CO6 3NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 293
- Coordinates
- 51.92898, 0.80827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congregational Chapel, formerly known as Fordham Congregational Church, dates from around 1789 and is associated with Lady Huntingdon. The chapel features rendered walls and a hipped roof covered with pegtile and leaded hips. The west end has two pairs of three-pane hornless sash windows, each with moulded stucco hoodmoulds. The south wall displays a range of five hornless sash windows with exposed boxes and small panes. An extension at the north end includes two pairs of matching sash windows. Inside, there is a plastered flat ceiling and a coved gallery at the west end, supported by round cast iron stanchions and featuring a panelled rail. Early 19th-century railings enclose the burial ground.
Local climate
Congregational Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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