Chapel at Reading School is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1975. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Chapel at Reading School
- WRENN ID
- dusted-wicket-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1975
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Reading School, Erleigh Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 726 727
- Coordinates
- 51.44864, -0.95568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel at Reading School, built in the 1870s, is likely designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who also designed the school. It features a plain Early English style, constructed from English bond red brick with blue brick bands and decorative chequering, particularly at the eaves, which include small chevron details. The roof is tiled with fishscale patterns. The chapel has eight bays divided by buttresses, with five bays containing paired lancets. There is a small gabled porch on the south-west side and a single lancet on the east bay, along with a stepped triple lancet on the east. A small two-light ambled extension serves as a vestry, topped with a small belfry and a tall octagonal chimney. Inside, the chapel has plain brick walls, arch-braced collar beam trusses supported by corbels, and long benches along the sides.
Local climate
Chapel at Reading School receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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