Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1961. A Georgian Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- guardian-kitchen-sepia
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1961
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Unitarian Chapel, Frenchay Common, Winterbourne, BS16 1ND
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 775
- Coordinates
- 51.49611, -2.52038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unitarian Chapel, built in 1720 with possible earlier elements, is located on Frenchay Common in Winterbourne. It underwent alterations in 1815. The chapel is constructed of rubble with brick dressings and features double Roman and concrete tile roofs. It is a single-storey building with two round-headed, brick-dressed sash windows on three sides, a plain coped parapet, and hipped roofs.
Prominently, there is a square four-stage tower on the south elevation, which includes a square-headed door with voussoirs and a keystone beneath a string course. The tower has remains of moulded pilasters, a single oculus above, a blank oculus higher up, segmental-headed openings at the top stage, a cornice, a pavilion roof, a finial, and a weathervane shaped like Halley's Comet.
Inside, the chapel features two Tuscan columns supporting the valley, a gallery on small Tuscan columns, and a corbelled pulpit with an ogee rear panel and urn. On the rear outside wall, there is an altar tomb with an attached urn marking the vault of the Bruce family, with the earliest date being 1804.
Local climate
Unitarian Chapel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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