Biddestone Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. Chapel. 8 related planning applications.
Biddestone Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- hidden-rubble-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Biddestone Baptist Chapel, Cuttle Lane, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 7DF
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 736
- Coordinates
- 51.4616, -2.19911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This Baptist chapel was built in 1832 and is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and a slate hipped roof. The front of the building features an ashlar porch with a coped gable and a stone slab roof. Above the porch is a plaque reading 'Ebenezer Chapel 1832', with a small circular window positioned above it within a square stone frame featuring incised spandrels. The sides of the chapel have two window bays, each with shallow pointed head windows and iron glazing bars with intersecting heads. A corrugated iron lean-to has been added to the rear. The interior contains a panelled wooden gallery supported by two iron columns. A balustered rail runs along the north side, and simple Gothic panelling decorates the lectern and the area behind the minister's seat, which is topped by a board shaped like a scrolled pediment.
Local climate
Biddestone Baptist Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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