Mortuary Chapel at Watling Street Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Mortuary Chapel at Watling Street Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- old-ledge-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 558 735
- Coordinates
- 51.43979, 0.24116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mortuary Chapel at Watling Street Burial Ground, built around 1870, is constructed of ashlar with a tiled roof. It features buttresses and a pentagonal apse, along with a north chapel and a north porch. The west front has a gable end with kneelers topped by a cross and includes two traceried windows. There is also a bell located above the entrance to the north chapel.
Local climate
Mortuary Chapel at Watling Street Burial Ground sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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