Baptist Chapel and Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Chapel, school.
Baptist Chapel and Former School
- WRENN ID
- heavy-moulding-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Chapel, school
- Address
- Baptist Chapel and Former School, Rye Road, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 280
- Coordinates
- 51.02329, 0.57749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel and former Sunday School, built in 1853 and 1899 respectively, is located on Rye Road in Sandhurst. The chapel is constructed of red brick and features four bays facing north and three bays to the west, each side flanked by white brick pilasters with segmental arched arcading above. The two central arches on the north front have Venetian windows, while the outer arches are round-headed at the first floor level. The eaves cornice is made of white brick with cogging, and the building has a slate roof with a brick chimneystack. The gable end facing west is designed as a pediment, with two similar arches below containing windows on both the ground and first floors. There is a square porch at the entrance.
Inside, the chapel has a semi-circular wooden pulpit and a gallery supported by two Tuscan columns. Attached to the chapel is the Sunday School, a single-storey building made of red brick with a slate roof. It features one gabled dormer and one false gabled dormer with a clock face, along with three Gothick windows that have keystones, and two plank doors. The Sunday School also includes pilasters and a cogged eaves cornice. An inscription on the building reads, "In memory of Thomas Ellis Slaughter, founder of this school, died Sept. 28 1899 aged 69 years."
Local climate
Baptist Chapel and Former School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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