Semley Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Baptist chapel.
Semley Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- strange-merlon-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Baptist chapel
- Address
- Semley Baptist Church, Sedgehill and Semley
- OS grid reference
- ST 890 267
- Coordinates
- 51.03989, -2.15768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Semley Baptist Church is a Baptist chapel built in 1823, as indicated by a stone tablet above the entrance. The building is constructed of dressed limestone and features a Welsh slate roof. It has a gable end facing the road, with the entrance located below a gallery at the east end. The entrance is marked by a gabled porch that includes a round-arched doorway with a keystone and imposts, a cast-iron bootscraper, and flanking buttresses, with lancet windows on the sides of the porch.
On either side of the porch, there are pairs of round-arched windows with imposts and square pilasters. A plat band runs along the gallery, which has two round-arched windows with round-arched panels above, imposts, and pilasters, along with the stone tablet displaying the date.
The left side of the building features 20th-century casements and a planked door to the left, along with two 2-light mullioned casements with roll-mouldings on the ground floor. The first floor has two 2-light round-arched windows and a 20th-century two-light casement.
The right side has two 2-light mullioned casements and a 2-light casement on the ground floor, while the first floor features two 2-light round-arched casements and a 20th-century casement to the right. The interior was not accessible during the survey conducted in January 1986.
Local climate
Semley Baptist Church receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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