Providence Chapel and Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1955. Chapel, manse. 3 related planning applications.

Providence Chapel and Manse

WRENN ID
winter-chimney-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1955
Type
Chapel, manse
Address
Providence Chapel and Manse, 86, Bradenstoke, Lyneham and Bradenstoke, SN15 4EL
OS grid reference
ST 999 793
Coordinates
51.51303, -2.00242
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Providence Chapel and Manse is a Strict Baptist chapel and attached minister's house, dated 1777 and built by Isaac Turner of Calne. The structure features brick with stone quoins and window dressings, a stone rear wall, and a stone slate roof. The chapel has its gable facing the street, with the house located to the rear left, which was added later. There is a 19th-century gabled porch. The chapel is constructed in Flemish bond and has tall windows with wooden glazing bars beneath segmental heads, featuring key stones and abaci. The steep gable is quarter-hipped at the apex and contains a similar segmental-headed sash window. A bellcote was reconstructed around 1960. The interior was remodeled early on when access was moved from its original position on the side of the building, and it was refitted around 1926. Inside, there are simple pews and a gallery over the entrance. The clock and bell, dated 1775, were made by John Broom of Castle Combe. The house has three bays with gable stacks and brick construction, featuring sash windows.

Notable monuments include a shield tablet for Edward Bryant, who died in 1782, and his wife May, which has a weeper leaning on an urn in the gable with bas relief. There is also a monument for Richard Prior, dated 1791 and created by Lovatt of Bath, who donated land for the cemetery at the rear in 1778, as noted on the datestone reset in the cemetery wall. Additionally, there is a monument for John Sutton, dated 1828.

Local climate

Providence Chapel and Manse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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