Wargrave Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. A C19 Chapel, congregational church. 5 related planning applications.
Wargrave Chapel
- WRENN ID
- broken-oriel-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Chapel, congregational church
- Address
- Wargrave Chapel, High Street, RG10 8HY
- OS grid reference
- SU 786 787
- Coordinates
- 51.50181, -0.86865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wargrave Chapel is a Congregational Church, built in 1835 in a neo-Gothic style. The exterior is painted roughcast with a plinth and small buttresses on the side walls, topped with stone-coped gables to a slate roof. The windows have leaded glass with pointed arches. The chapel comprises a five-bay nave, a west bell tower, and a chancel to the east, sheltered by a pent roof. The front entrance has three bays, with a bell tower in the centre. A flight of three steps leads to the entrance, flanked by pairs of two-light leaded windows with pointed arches and crudely cusped heads. The tower has three stages, with a string mould and full-height engaged hexagonal columns on each corner, featuring a moulded cornice and castellated tops. It also has a battlemented parapet, two-light louvred openings on three sides of the bell chamber, and a recessed two-light leaded casement below. The entrance features a pair of wood planked doors with three-centred heads, set under a pointed arch. A 20th century entrance and parish room extension have been added on the left side. Historic references can be found in the Victoria County History, Volume III, page 192, and in the Buildings of England: Berkshire, page 258.
Local climate
Wargrave Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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