Bearwood College Chapel Bearwood College Chapel 30 Metres North West of Bearwood College is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1986. Chapel. 4 related planning applications.
Bearwood College Chapel Bearwood College Chapel 30 Metres North West of Bearwood College
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-truss-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bearwood College Chapel Bearwood College Chapel 30 Metres North West of Bearwood College, RG41 5BG
- OS grid reference
- SU 776 691
- Coordinates
- 51.41568, -0.8848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bearwood College Chapel is a chapel built between 1934 and 1935 by Sir Herbert Baker. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a plain tile hipped roof. The layout includes a nave, east and west aisle passages, and an apsidal sanctuary, with a lobby entrance on the south side. The ground floor has six bays of two-light leaded windows in the Perpendicular style, along with one-light similar windows in the clerestoreys. The exterior is supported by brick and stone buttresses, and there is a fleche on the ridge towards the north end.
An enclosed entry porch on the south has a domed ceiling, while a semi-circular arched entry leads to a buttressed bell tower, which has an open bell chamber beneath a hipped tiled roof that is slightly lower than the main roof. A stone memorial plaque at the base of the bell tower commemorates James Lyle Mackay, First Earl of Inchcape, who was Treasurer of The Royal Merchant Navy School from 1917 to 1932.
Inside, the chapel features six bay arcades with semi-circular arches and rectangular columns adorned with continuous mouldings, as well as a rib vaulted apse and two shallow domes over the choir bays. The chapel is included for its group value.
Local climate
Bearwood College Chapel Bearwood College Chapel 30 Metres North West of Bearwood College 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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