College Chapel, Kings College is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1996. College chapel. 10 related planning applications.
College Chapel, Kings College
- WRENN ID
- shifting-threshold-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1996
- Type
- College chapel
- Address
- College Chapel, Kings College, Kidderpore Avenue
- OS grid reference
- TQ 253 859
- Coordinates
- 51.55814, -0.19356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The College Chapel at King's College was built between 1928 and 1929 by architects Percy Morley Horder and Verner Rees to honor Miss Anne Richardson, a former Vice-Principal. The chapel features rendered brickwork with a stone portico and has a shallow hipped roof with projecting eaves. Its design is austere and restrained in a Classical style, with a rectangular plan and a chancel that forms a semicircular apse internally. The eastern elevation is single storey, while the western elevation is double-height. The Doric portico leads to double wooden panelled and studded doors with a patterned overlight. The chapel has small rectangular windows with small panes and a continuous plain sill band, along with small clerestory windows.
Inside, entry is at half height, with a balcony and double steps leading down into the main body of the chapel. The interior is plain, featuring pilaster strips and a panelled ceiling, with the apse illuminated by windows positioned high on each side. Historically, Miss Richardson requested that the chapel be "small and simple... in which no Christian ministry shall be impossible."
Local climate
College Chapel, Kings College 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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