American Military Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
American Military Chapel
- WRENN ID
- little-moat-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- American Military Chapel, Brookwood Cemetery, GU24 0JB
- OS grid reference
- SU 949 567
- Coordinates
- 51.30175, -0.64005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The American Military Chapel, built in 1925, is possibly designed by Egerton Swartwhent and showcases a Greek Revival style. The chapel is approximately 25 feet square with a centralized plan. It features a portico supported by four fluted Doric columns, accessed by a flight of five steps at the front. An inscription on the frieze reads: "Perpetual light upon them shines." The central block rises behind the portico, adorned with a decorative band of ribbons and garlands, a geometric pattern frieze above, and a pyramidal roof. Behind the portico, there are eight-panel paired bronze doors set in architrave surrounds, topped by a bronze eagle in the transom light. The return fronts include two half Doric columns with a scroll frieze and stained glass windows positioned between them.
Inside, the chapel features a handkerchief vault supported by marble columns at the corners, with two Doric columns on each side. The walls display bronze rolls of honour, and there is a mosaic behind the altar.
Local climate
American Military Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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