Zion Baptist Chapel (Including Attached Railings) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Chapel.
Zion Baptist Chapel (Including Attached Railings)
- WRENN ID
- first-bailey-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Zion Baptist Chapel (Including Attached Railings), Eye Road, Rishangles
- OS grid reference
- TM 161 687
- Coordinates
- 52.27408, 1.16618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Zion Baptist Chapel, built in 1862, is a Baptist chapel located on Rishangles Eye Road. It is constructed of red brick with a white brick gable end facade facing west and features a slated roof. The building is single storey with a symmetrical facade that includes flanking pilaster strips and two narrow arched recesses, each containing a non-opening casement window with glazing bars. These windows are set under flat lintels supported by console brackets. Below each window, there is a gabled porch with a four-panel door divided into two leaves. The gable features an inscribed circular panel displaying the date of construction. The sides of the chapel have four bays with larger windows of a similar design set within square-headed recesses.
Attached to both the left and right sides of the facade are short lengths of contemporary wrought iron railings that end in square brick piers. Additional railings extend along the road frontage of the churchyard to the south. Inside, there is a gallery at the east end that includes five removable panels and two lower panels with sliding shutters, which are later alterations. The seating was reconfigured in 1985.
Local climate
Zion Baptist Chapel (Including Attached Railings) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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