Carnary Chapel is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A Medieval Chapel.

Carnary Chapel

WRENN ID
calm-string-soot
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Chapel
Period
Medieval
Address
Carnary Chapel, the Close
OS grid reference
TG 233 089
Coordinates
52.63186, 1.29954
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Carnary Chapel is a Grade I listed chapel founded in 1316 by Bishop Salmon. It is constructed of stone with a plain-tile roof and features four bays above a four-bay twin-aisled undercroft. There is a door to the undercroft on the left side, which has a moulded two-centre surround and three cusped circular windows. The chapel has four three-light proto-perpendicular windows with pointed two-centre arches. Additionally, there are cusped niches with pointed arches and crocketed finials on the buttresses. The east window is partly blocked and features 19th-century intersecting tracery. The chapel includes polygonal angle-turrets on all corners except the north-west corner. It is also scheduled as an Ancient Monument.

Local climate

Carnary Chapel 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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