Former Sunday School to the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. A 19th century Former school.
Former Sunday School to the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel
- WRENN ID
- cold-nave-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- Former Sunday School to the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, Vineyards, BA1 5NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 750 653
- Coordinates
- 51.38667, -2.36055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Sunday School to the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, now an art gallery, was built in 1842 by George P Manners. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a slate roof with a moulded stack on the left party wall. The building has two storeys and a four-window front. It is topped with a coped parapet and a cornice that continues from the rear wing connected to the chapel. The first floor has stone mullioned and transomed three-light casement windows with label moulds above. The ground floor has three similar windows beneath a moulded first-floor string course, flanked by vertical panelled doors set under Tudor arches with sunk spandrels. The left door features a stone scroll banner carved with the word "SCHOOLS." To the left, there is a school house that completes the southern side of the courtyard. The interior has not been inspected and the building was formerly home to the British Folk Art Collection.
Local climate
Former Sunday School to the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel 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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