Bethesda Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Baptist church. 3 related planning applications.
Bethesda Chapel
- WRENN ID
- sombre-transept-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1950
- Type
- Baptist church
- Address
- Bethesda Chapel, Bury Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1HF
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 589
- Coordinates
- 52.19039, 0.99534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bethesda Chapel is a Baptist church built in 1813 and enlarged in 1836, with an entrance and hall added in 1966 and gallery alterations made in 1978. The building is constructed of brick and has a roof covered with black-glazed pantiles and slate. It is two storeys high. The entrance is located on the north side and features two gabled porches with six-panelled double-leaf doors. Above the doors are two windows with glazing bars and a central plaque commemorating the building. The east side includes the entrance and hall, while the main windows on the ground floor have been replaced with 20th-century versions, and the upper floor windows are made of uPVC. The west facade has a secondary entrance and replaced 20th-century windows with glazing bars. There are two external stacks on the south flank, and the roof is hipped.
Inside, there are galleries on the east, west, and south sides, supported by timber pillars, and a timber-panelled balcony.
Local climate
Bethesda Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 applications
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