Kensington Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Kensington Temple
- WRENN ID
- rooted-balcony-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Kensington Temple, Ladbroke Road W10, W11 3BY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 251 805
- Coordinates
- 51.51006, -0.19858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kensington Temple is a church dating from around 1848-9, originally built as the Horbury Congregational Chapel by J Tarvin. It later served as the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and is now the Elim Pentecostal Church. The building is constructed in a geometrical Gothic style and has a cruciform plan, featuring a four-bay nave, transepts, and a shallow sanctuary containing the pulpit. The exterior is of random rubble Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof, parapets, and a coped gable to the east front, flanked by towers. The east window is a four-light design with geometrical tracery. A central arched doorway has receding orders and a hoodmould, with further doorways located in the corner towers. Inside, the church has a plain interior with galleries on three sides, supported by cast iron columns and accessed by staircases within the towers.
Local climate
Kensington Temple 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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