Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north. is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north.
- WRENN ID
- empty-lime-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north., East Street, Wareham, BH20 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 961 819
- Coordinates
- 50.63707, -2.05594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, along with the boundary railings on its north side, was built in 1835 as an Independent Chapel. The church is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, featuring coped gables and apex finials. It has a simple rectangular plan, incorporating a north porch with an ashlar-faced north wall and a coped gabled roof topped with an apex finial. A date plaque is positioned above the door. The side walls contain two tall, round-headed windows with simple ashlar surrounds. The west wall has a triple round-arched window featuring Romanesque-style columns as mullions.
The interior of the church is plain, with a segmental arched plaster ceiling and a semi-circular niche located in the east wall. The furnishings are of late 19th-century date.
Early 19th-century iron boundary railings enclose the churchyard to the north. These railings feature shaped tops, and an ornamental overthrow with a lamp housing marks the gateway, complemented by matching iron gates.
Local climate
Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north. receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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