Lady Margaret Hall, Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A C20 Chapel.

Lady Margaret Hall, Chapel

WRENN ID
waiting-bailey-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
Chapel
OS grid reference
SP 515 077
Coordinates
51.7659, -1.25389
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lady Margaret Hall Chapel, built in 1933 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is designed in the Byzantine style. The building is constructed of brick and features a pantiled roof and a dome. Inside, the chapel has a plain interior. Notable architectural details include an ashlar doorway with a carved tympanum and capitals.

Local climate

Lady Margaret Hall, Chapel 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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