Former Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1972. Chapel. 6 related planning applications.
Former Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gilded-forge-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1972
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Former Unitarian Chapel, Lower Dagnall Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 072
- Coordinates
- 51.75248, -0.34194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Unitarian Chapel, also known as the Old Presbyterian Chapel, dating from 1697. Constructed of brick, it has been cement rendered and colour-washed, and is topped with a hipped tiled roof. The two-storey structure has three casement windows with glazing bars, and features an eaves cornice. A surround is present around the doorway on the left side. This is an important early Nonconformist chapel, associated with prominent Presbyterians and Unitarians during the 18th century. From the mid-1890s to 1903, the chapel served as the premises of Samuel Ryder, whose penny-packet seed business operated from here before relocating to Holywell Hill, where he constructed new offices in 1911. The building is graded for group value and forms part of a group with numbers 3-11 (odd) and numbers 13 and 15.
Local climate
Former Unitarian Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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
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