Hackney Baptist Chapel, and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Chapel, Sunday School. 2 related planning applications.

Hackney Baptist Chapel, and Sunday School

WRENN ID
secret-plinth-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Chapel, Sunday School
Address
Hackney Baptist Chapel, and Sunday School, Queensdown Road E5, E5 8DS
OS grid reference
TQ 347 858
Coordinates
51.5555, -0.05821
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hackney Baptist Chapel and Sunday School is a large building from the late 19th century. The main west front features a central two-storey gabled bay, which includes a large wheel window and a twin-arched entrance below. This is flanked by four-storey towers topped with tall mansard roofs. The building is constructed of red brick, accented with stone and blue and grey brick dressings, and has slated roofs arranged in various patterns. It exhibits a neo-Romanesque style, characterized by round-headed windows arranged in pairs or rows with impost bands. The entrance is flanked by shafts with foliage capitals, and all windows have hoodmoulds. Below the gable coping, there is a wide band of decorative tiles. Wrought iron finials adorn all roof angles, and cast iron lamp-holders are positioned beside the doorway. The left side of the building has a two-storey, five-bay return facing Downs Road, leading to the north front of the Sunday School section, which is in a similar style but features a pierced parapet. The Sunday School itself is two storeys high with a gable end, five linked first-floor windows with ornamental iron glazing bars, and a central entrance.

Local climate

Hackney Baptist Chapel, and Sunday School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 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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