Finchampstead Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1986. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Finchampstead Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- ruined-porch-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- SU 794 631
- Coordinates
- 51.36181, -0.86009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Finchampstead Baptist Church is an early 19th-century chapel located in Finchampstead. The building is constructed of red brick and features a vitreous plinth, a string course at the base of the pedimented gable, an eaves string, and window arches. It has a slate gabled roof and a rectangular plan with the gable facing the road. The north front is pedimented and includes a bull's eye window in the tympanum. There are three bays on the ground floor, with outer arched radiating windows that have glazing bars, flanking a central door set within a pedimented porch. Early 19th-century railings are present along the road.
Local climate
Finchampstead Baptist Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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