The Baptist Tabernacle is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
The Baptist Tabernacle
- WRENN ID
- stranded-transept-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Baptist Tabernacle, Derby Road, WD17 2LZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 112 964
- Coordinates
- 51.65611, -0.3925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Tabernacle is a large brick Gothic chapel built in 1887. It features a cross-plan layout with a gabled front and transepts. The design includes two conical roofed turrets positioned on spare bases between the nave roof and the lower transept roofs. The eaves are overhanging and supported by brackets. The chapel has triple lancet windows set within a pointed arched recess, which is topped with a hood mould. The main front recess extends to the ground and is decorated with stamped brick panels, with three segment-headed windows on the ground floor. This main recess is flanked by buttresses and has a narrow light in a pointed arched recess on either side. There are outer porches, each with a separate roof, located at the angle between the nave and chancel, which embrace the bases of the towers. The roofs of the porches are hipped and align with the main roofs above.
Local climate
The Baptist Tabernacle sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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