Cambria Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Chapel. 5 related planning applications.
Cambria Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chapel-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cambria Baptist Chapel, Cambria Place, South Swindon, SN1 5DN
- OS grid reference
- SU 144 843
- Coordinates
- 51.55798, -1.79357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cambria Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel built in 1866. It features snecked rock-faced limestone with Bath ashlar dressings, and the west side has slate-hung brickwork while the east and rear are constructed of English bond brickwork with stone dressings. The roof is made of 20th-century interlocking tiles, and there are rear hall extensions.
The north entrance elevation has a central pair of two-panelled doors set within painted pilasters and a keyed archivolt, topped by a thin pediment. There is a stone plinth and end pilaster buttresses, with round-headed two-pane sash windows on either side. The elevation displays a characteristically Welsh style. Each side of the chapel has three round-headed cast iron paned windows within hollow-chamfered reveals.
Inside, there is a simple west gallery supported by two slender cast iron columns, a raised dais with a turned balustrade and acorn-headed newels, and a boarded flat ceiling. The hall and its additions are not of special interest. The chapel serves as the focal point of Cambria Place and was built for the Welsh community of ironworkers who moved to Swindon.
Local climate
Cambria Baptist Chapel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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