Peculiar People's Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Peculiar People's Chapel
- WRENN ID
- keen-rafter-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Peculiar People's Chapel, Maldon Road, Steeple, CM0 7RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 026
- Coordinates
- 51.6896, 0.79113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small, simple brick chapel dating to 1877, built for the Peculiar People, a religious sect founded as a grass roots revivalist movement in the 1850s. It is the first chapel built by the sect, and one of only two known to survive intact. The chapel is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings, and has a grey slate roof. It is a single-storeyed building with lugged quoins, two Gothic windows, and a central door. A gault band runs to the gable coping. The windows have glazing bars and centre mullions creating Gothic heads. The double vertically boarded doors are fitted with ornamental strap hinges, an escutcheon plate, and a handle. Matching windows are present to the returns, separated by pilasters. The sect gained respect for their agricultural and social reforms, however, their belief in natural healing caused conflict when treatments such as smallpox vaccination became common.
Local climate
Peculiar People's Chapel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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