Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. A Medieval Chapel.
Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm
- WRENN ID
- winter-facade-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm, St Bartholomew's Lane, Sudbury, CO10 1XP
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 428
- Coordinates
- 52.05204, 0.72733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm is an early 15th-century structure that now functions as an outbuilding. It is built from uncoursed flint rubble and features a gabled old tile roof. The chapel has a rectangular single-cell plan, with offset diagonal corner buttresses and an additional offset buttress at the center of its two-bay north and south elevations. Much of the window tracery has been lost, but the east window retains moulded Tudor-arched architraves and remnants of cusped Perpendicular tracery at the top. There are hood moulds with head stops above the moulded 2-centred arched windows on the north and south sides, which also show traces of cusped Perpendicular tracery. The south elevation includes an ancient studded door set within a moulded 2-centred architrave, while the west window features a moulded Tudor-arched architrave with 19th-century brick at the head. Inside, the chapel boasts a complete trussed rafter roof of uniform scantling, lacking longitudinal support. Historically, this chapel served the cell or grange of the Benedictine Westminster Abbey, which was present on this site from 1115 until 1538. There is also a 14th-century barn and a post-dissolution farmhouse on the property, while the prior's lodging was demolished in 1779.
Local climate
Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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