Fornham Road Free Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1997. Church.
Fornham Road Free Church
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chalk-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1997
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Fornham Road Free Church, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 652
- Coordinates
- 52.25382, 0.71395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fornham Road Free Church, originally a Railway Mission chapel, was built in 1900 and extended in 1903. It is constructed from painted corrugated iron with painted matchboard lining. The building features Gothic-style 2-light windows and small triangular dormers on both slopes of the roof. At the east end, there is a small entrance porch and lobby. Inside, there are two separate rooms located to the west of the main chapel. The church was renamed Fornham Road Free Church in 1990.
Local climate
Fornham Road Free Church 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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