Litten Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. A C16 Chapel.
Litten Chapel
- WRENN ID
- crooked-bracket-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Litten Chapel, Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BB
- OS grid reference
- SU 469 666
- Coordinates
- 51.39655, -1.3267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Litten Chapel is an early 16th-century building that features the remains of the chapel of the old hospital of St Bartholomew. It is attached to Litten House, which now serves as the Newbury Commercial School. The chapel is a single-storey rectangular structure that was shortened at the east end around 1825 when Newtown Road was widened. A modern brick extension with a catslide roof has been added to the north-west corner. The building has a tiled roof, flint rubble walls, and a brick east gable end, with some elements made of Bath stone.
Originally, each side wall had two windows. The north side features windows with two cinque-foiled, four-centred lights and spandrels under a square head, although the north-west window was converted into a doorway in 1947. The south-west window has two plain, four-centred lights in a square head, while the south-east window has been replaced by a modern arched doorway with a hood mould. The east window, added in 1825, has six arched lights.
Inside, the chapel contains two richly-carved and moulded queen-post trusses, although the tie-beams have been removed.
Local climate
Litten Chapel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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