Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. A C19 Chapel.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- twisted-clay-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, Rectory Road, Whepstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 837 578
- Coordinates
- 52.18867, 0.6872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, built in 1844, is designed in the Gothic style and features a gable front. The structure is made of uncoursed flint and septaria rubble, with gault brick quoins. Its facade is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a parapet gable, topped with rusticated brick finials on corbelled blocks at the ridge and eaves. The roof is slated.
The chapel includes hoodmoulded pointed-arched windows with splayed reveals and leaded glazing. Above the entrance, there is a central quatrefoil window with a moulded brick surround. The entrance porch is a single storey, also with a slated parapet gable and corner buttresses. It features a pointed hood-moulded doorway, which is flanked by a pair of battened and boarded doors adorned with ornamental nail-heads.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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