Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1996. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel
- WRENN ID
- errant-terrace-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1996
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel, A423, Bix and Assendon, RG9 6AA
- OS grid reference
- SU 743 844
- Coordinates
- 51.55425, -0.929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel is an Anglican cemetery chapel built in 1868. It is constructed from knapped flint with freestone dressings and features clay tile roofs that include bands of shaped tiles, crested ridge-tiles, and stone coping at the gable ends, complete with finials and corbelled kneelers. The chapel has a nave and a short chancel, with a porch located on the liturgical south side of the nave, which also houses an integral bell-tower.
In the Victorian Gothic style, the chapel showcases Decorated window tracery. The exterior has steeply-pitched roofs, corner buttresses with set-offs, and small lancet windows on the north and south sides, all adorned with cusped arches. The east side features a 2-light window, while the west side boasts a large 3-light window, both with Decorated tracery and stained glass. The gabled porch on the north side has a pointed arch and an inner door with ornate wrought-iron strap hinges. To the left of the porch is the integral bell-tower, which has a polygonal stone belfry with a squat spire; both the belfry and spire have been rebuilt. The north doorway also has a pointed arch and plank doors with strap hinges, flanked by two new brick buttresses. A stone string runs around the chapel at window cill level.
Inside, the chapel features a double-chamfered chancel arch without capitals on the responds, a scissor-braced roof, benches, a lectern, an altar rail, and stained glass windows.
Local climate
Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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