Chapel at College of St Mark and St John is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Chapel. 15 related planning applications.

Chapel at College of St Mark and St John

WRENN ID
silver-hall-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1969
Type
Chapel
Address
Chapel at College of St Mark and St John, Fulham Road, London, SW10 9UZ
OS grid reference
TQ 260 774
Coordinates
51.48206, -0.18668
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The chapel at the College of St Mark and St John is a building of group value, dating from 1841. It was designed by Edward Blore, working alongside Derwent Coleridge, who was the college’s first principal. The chapel is built in Romanesque style using Suffolk brick and has a cruciform plan featuring an apsidal east end. It includes gabled transepts which connect to the nave via small turrets, and a turret is also present at the west end of the nave.

Local climate

Chapel at College of St Mark and St John sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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