Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Baptist chapel.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- salt-render-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Baptist chapel
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna
- OS grid reference
- ST 576 630
- Coordinates
- 51.3648, -2.60948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, dated 1867 with later additions from 1887, is constructed from snecked sandstone and limestone rubble, with limestone dressings and brick. It features double Roman tiled roofs with raised coped verges and kneelers. The chapel is rectangular in shape, with a hall attached to the rear.
On the north elevation, there is a pointed arched door set in a moulded architrave, complete with a hood mould adorned with rosettes and mask stops, stone plate tracery, and a quatrefoil in the upper section. Above this door is a large octofoil window in a plain surround with a relieving arch, a datestone above, and a finial at the gable. The elevation also showcases long and short quoins, a band course that ramps up to the window, and returns under the eaves on the sides.
The east elevation has four bays featuring round-headed plate-glass sashes with margin glazing, a band course below the cills, and a returned band course that forms a corbel table with corbels and a plinth. The heads of the windows are made of banded limestone and sandstone. To the left, there is a single-storey connecting wing with a parapet and coping, a door with a shouldered architrave, a relieving arch, and a keystone, as well as a round-headed sash window with a banded head and keystone. A second connecting block to the left has a similar door and a round-headed window with ventilation louvres, along with a limestone parapet featuring recessed panels and coping.
To the left of the chapel is a two-storey hall built from snecked rock-faced limestone rubble, which has a gable end to the east featuring two tall lancets and bargeboards, along with dated foundation stones and a central datestone. The left return of the hall has three large four-pane lights in plain architraves, while the rear of the hall has two lancets similar to those on the front.
The west elevation of the chapel includes four round-headed windows with brick heads, lacking band courses, and a single-storey lean-to on the right with two doors and a plate-glass sash. Inside, there is a balustraded dais at the south end of the chapel with twisted balusters and original wooden pews.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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