Forest School Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Chapel.
Forest School Chapel
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-frieze-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow MP: Ms Stella Creasy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Forest School Chapel, College Place E17, E17 3PY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 392 893
- Coordinates
- 51.58589, 0.00894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest School Chapel is a school chapel built in 1857 and enlarged in 1875 by William White. It is constructed of stock brick with red and blue banding and features a steeply pitched tiled roof. The aisleless nave has an unbroken roofline at the junctions with the chancel, and there are short low transepts. A bellcote with a shingled spire is located at the west end. The chapel is designed in an Early English/Geometrical Gothic style, with two-light brick plate-traceried windows in the nave and a three-light window at the east end. Triangular dormers with timber tracery are present on the roof. There is a projecting southwest porch and an enclosed buttressed corridor that connects the chapel to the main school buildings, featuring three-light windows. Inside, the chapel has an open timber hammerbeam and scissor truss roof, along with stalls that were sourced from Jesus College Chapel in Oxford. The east window contains stained glass by Morris and Co.
Local climate
Forest School Chapel 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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