St Aldhelm's Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Chapel.

St Aldhelm's Chapel

WRENN ID
mired-hall-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1955
Type
Chapel
Address
St Aldhelm's Chapel, Cranborne
OS grid reference
SU 061 146
Coordinates
50.93128, -1.91368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Aldhelm's Chapel is a redundant Chapel of Ease, dated 1838. It features a combination of banded brick and flint construction, with rusticated brick quoins and ashlar dressings, topped by a slate roof. The layout includes a combined nave and chancel, a north chapel, and a north tower, all designed in an electric classical style. The chapel has round-headed ashlar windows with moulded architraves and stone keystones, some of which include transoms at the springing line. A modillioned brick cornice adds detail, while the rusticated west doorway is framed by a double, panelled doorway in a pilastered surround, with a 3-light window above it. The belfry features 2-light round-headed ashlar windows, and an ashlar open cupola with round arches supported by Roman Doric columns, topped with a vase finial.

Internally, the chapel contains reset 16th and 17th century panelling, a wall tablet commemorating Henry Brouncher and family from 1825, and a reset stone cartouche with painted arms. A gadrooned stone font with a fluted bowl, likely from 1838, is also present, along with an openwork pulpit that incorporates 17th century elements.

Local climate

St Aldhelm's Chapel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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