Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Chapel.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- stranded-alcove-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, Upper Downs Slade, Haverhill
- OS grid reference
- TL 669 455
- Coordinates
- 52.08313, 0.43581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, built in 1828, is a single-storey building made of red brick and topped with a hipped roof covered in concrete pantiles. The chapel has a rectangular shape with corners defined by clasping pilasters. The south side features a double-leaf panelled door set within panelled reveals, framed by a doorcase with reeded and bowed pilasters, a dentil cornice, and a flat hood. Flanking the door are two 6/6 unhorned sash windows, each set under gauged skewback arches. Above the door is a datestone, situated just below a half-round window with radial glazing bars. On the west side, there are two recessed arched niches, each containing a fixed 12-paned window with an opening 12-paned upper section, along with a door and a small window towards the north end.
Inside, the chapel features panelled galleries on the north and south sides, with the southern gallery supported by cast-iron columns. Both galleries are enclosed and have 20th-century suspended ceilings. The interior also includes a polygonal pulpit adorned with trefoiled arcading, and a total immersion font located beneath the central aisle running north-south.
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 71% 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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