Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt
- WRENN ID
- solitary-banister-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt, Town Hill, Lamberhurst, TN3 8EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 674 360
- Coordinates
- 51.09888, 0.3898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Strict Baptist Chapel, built in 1816 and altered in 1851, is located on Town Hill in Lamberhurst. This chapel features red and blue chequered brick with a slate-hung rear addition and a slate roof. It is designed in a simple Neo-Classical style and has a rectangular shape with a two-storey rear wing. The main façade has a pedimented gable that includes a gauged brick roundel and gauged round-headed windows on either side of central panelled double doors, which are topped with a traceried segmental fan and a flat hood supported by brackets. The side elevations have a brick dentil eaves cornice and a single tall window opening. All windows have late 20th-century top bung casements that replaced the original sashes. The rear wing features sash windows and an end stack. The upper courses of the chapel show evidence of the 1851 alterations, while the rear wing is entirely from that date, although some sources suggest the chapel was rebuilt in 1851.
To the east of the chapel is a walled forecourt, constructed around 1851, with walls approximately 4 feet high made of red brick in English bond on a sandstone base. The walls have coping stones and slight piers at the corners and at the central gate, which consists of simple iron uprights. The right return side of the forecourt is formed by the gates and walls of Murlingden, built around 1841, which predates the forecourt walls.
Local climate
Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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