Cavendish Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Cavendish Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- open-chapel-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cavendish Baptist Church, Cavendish Street, Ramsgate, CT11 9AL
- OS grid reference
- TR 381 649
- Coordinates
- 51.33407, 1.41747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cavendish Baptist Church is a chapel built in 1840 by James Wilson of Bath for £4,000. It is designed in a Neo-Norman style and constructed of white brick with rendered details. The building features a moulded plinth that supports three pairs of octagonal turrets, topped with a bracketed parapet that rises as a gable over the center. The front has two paired round-headed lancets on either side of the central piers, which include a cill band and three roll-moulded orders. The central window has a multi-order surround that extends down to the plinth, featuring three lights with intersecting heads. On either side, giant arches frame traceried plank and stud doors, which have attached columns and moulded surrounds, topped with a Lombard frieze. The side and rear elevations are plain. The main elevation's width reflects its position as the side of the chapel.
Inside, the church has a large, unaisled space with arcaded galleries on the end walls and minimal decoration, limited to window mouldings and a cornice. Initially, the architect and the client, Reverend James Matlock Daniell, planned for a belfry, but this was opposed by Trinity House, which had previously donated £1,000 to St. Georges. Daniell also named Cavendish Street after the road developed between 1839 and 1880 by Ramsgate builders Woodward and Grundy.
Local climate
Cavendish Baptist Church 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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