Chapel of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1952. Chapel.
Chapel of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- pitched-granite-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St Michael, Chapel Hill
- OS grid reference
- SX 903 650
- Coordinates
- 50.47535, -3.54724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Michael is a disused Anglican chapel, likely dating from the 13th or 14th century. It is constructed from local grey limestone rubble with some red sandstone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The chapel is small and aisleless, situated dramatically on the steep side of Chapel Hill, with a doorway located on the south side.
The exterior is very plain, with the east end featuring a segmental-headed window opening that is ungazed. There is one slit window on the south side, which also has a segmental-headed arched doorway made with red sandstone voussoirs and the remains of a former porch. The north side has no windows, while the west end wall is thicker at the bottom and includes a slit window in the gable end wall. The stone slate roof is impressively massive.
Inside, the floor is uneven bedrock, and the roof is constructed with a pointed-barrel vault. This medieval chapel has little recorded history, and the suggested date is tentative. The unusual roof construction is notable for the region, and the interior was scaffolded at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Chapel of St Michael receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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