Chapel of Kingswood School is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 2011. Chapel.
Chapel of Kingswood School
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-fireplace-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 2011
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, BA1 5RG
- OS grid reference
- ST 744 666
- Coordinates
- 51.39836, -2.36888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of Kingswood School is a commemorative school chapel built in 1922 by Gunton and Gunton. It is constructed from Bath limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof.
The chapel has a rectangular nave with an apsed chancel and is designed in a Perpendicular style. The west end appears unfinished, suggesting that a porch was planned. It features a recessed doorway surrounded by a shield moulding and framed by buttresses with offsets. This doorway is flanked by two-light mullioned windows with cusped heads and drip moulds above. Above these is a five-light Perpendicular window with a hood-mould. The side elevations consist of five bays with three-light windows that include a band of shields on a wide transom, along with buttresses with offsets. The chapel also has a corbel table and a castellated parapet, while the apsed chancel is adorned with lancet windows on each face.
Inside, the chapel includes a lobby beneath the west gallery, a four-bay nave with a hammer beam roof, and a shield band on the window transoms similar to the exterior. The interior features high-quality oak joinery and furniture, including a panelled front to the gallery and a panelled screen below.
Local climate
Chapel of Kingswood School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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