Penknap Providence Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Penknap Providence Church
- WRENN ID
- errant-bonework-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Penknap Providence Church, Dilton Marsh, BA13 3SP
- OS grid reference
- ST 857 497
- Coordinates
- 51.24654, -2.20584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penknap Providence Church is a chapel built in 1840, as indicated by the date on the lunette above the entrance. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick and features a Welsh slate roof with coped verges and a brick stack at the rear gable. The building is two storeys high with a three-window front. The central entrance consists of 20th-century double doors set in a pointed stone surround, flanked by pointed windows with Y-glazing bars and diamond leading. The gallery floor includes three pointed windows with Y-glazing bars, and there is a dentilled brick string course at the gable, which also has a lunette with an inscribed surround. The left and right sides of the church have four pointed windows with Y-glazing bars on both the ground and gallery floors. The rear of the church has an attached vestry and schoolroom; the left side retains a small 16-pane sash window, while the rest features 20th-century windows and raised eaves. Inside, the church has a gallery supported by cast-iron columns on the east, north, and south sides, along with 19th-century pews.
Local climate
Penknap Providence Church receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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