Chapel South West of Harlowbury in Grounds is a Grade I listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. Chapel.
Chapel South West of Harlowbury in Grounds
- WRENN ID
- upper-pedestal-heath
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel South West of Harlowbury in Grounds, Old Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 477 120
- Coordinates
- 51.78767, 0.14046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chapel located south-west of Harlowbury, dating from around 1170 to 1180, is a Norman structure that is plain and originally unbuttressed. It features three windows on both the north and south walls, with original windows in the east and west gables. The building is constructed of rubble with dressings made from Reigate clunch and brick, some of which include bone set tiles. The north door consists of two square orders with attached nook shafts that are sectioned as painted rolls, topped with water leaf capitals. The chapel was re-roofed between approximately 1300 and 1404 when it was desecrated and converted into a granary, resulting in a timber floor. This later roof includes well-crafted crown posts with carinated fillets, while evidence of the original late Saxon roofing method remains, with two gable rafter-couples still surviving.
Local climate
Chapel South West of Harlowbury in Grounds 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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