Mortuary Chapel or Bier House Below Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. Mortuary chapel.
Mortuary Chapel or Bier House Below Chapel
- WRENN ID
- turning-turret-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1986
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Address
- Mortuary Chapel or Bier House Below Chapel, Boughton Under Blean
- OS grid reference
- TR 060 593
- Coordinates
- 51.29577, 0.95419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The mortuary chapel or bier house, now disused, dates from the 18th century and is constructed of red brick. It is set into the embankment of a raised roadway. The front elevation measures approximately 6 feet wide and 6 feet high, featuring a central boarded door that is set within a semi-circular arched and keyed surround on imposts. Inside, there is wooden shelving for coffins.
Local climate
Mortuary Chapel or Bier House Below Chapel 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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