Former Workhouse Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. A Victorian Chapel.
Former Workhouse Chapel
- WRENN ID
- last-gateway-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Former Workhouse Chapel, High Road, Shipmeadow
- OS grid reference
- TM 378 897
- Coordinates
- 52.45422, 1.4997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Workhouse Chapel, built in 1865-66 by G.E. Street, is now used as a farm store. It was originally part of the Wangford Hundred workhouse and is constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof featuring crest tiles, designed in the Gothic style. The building has a single roof that covers both the nave and the apsidal chancel, with the junction marked by a fleche on the roof and a brick buttress on each side wall. The nave features a range of three coupled lancet windows with a circular window above, while the apsidal end has three lancet windows. At the west end, there is an open lean-to porch and a three-light window. The interior has plain red brick walls.
Local climate
Former Workhouse Chapel receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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