Zion Hill Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Zion Hill Chapel

WRENN ID
odd-vault-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1987
Type
Chapel
Address
Zion Hill Chapel, Cuff's Lane, Tisbury, SP3 6LG
OS grid reference
ST 947 296
Coordinates
51.06645, -2.07634
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Zion Hill Chapel is a Congregational chapel built in 1842, which is now no longer in use. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. The design is in an early 13th-century style and includes a nave with a gallery above the entrance at the south end. The south front is gabled and has a central gabled porch with stepped coping and octagonal pinnacles. It features double pointed planked doors with a quatrefoil above, flanked by two-light plate tracery windows. The ground floor has additional two-light plate tracery windows, and the gallery has three stepped lancets at the center of the first floor, also with a quatrefoil above. The stepped coped verge is adorned with pilasters that rise to the octagonal corner pinnacles. The left and right sides of the chapel have two pairs of lancets with hoodmoulds and buttresses in between. The north end includes a gabled vestry with a pair of lancets on either side and three stepped lancets above, with corner pilasters extending to pinnacles on the gable's stepped verge. Inside, there is a gallery with a panelled front supported by two cast-iron columns, and the north end retains a reredos and reading desk, although all pews have been removed. The entrance vestibule features a pair of stone staircases with cast-iron handrails leading to the gallery, alongside pointed double doors that open into the nave. The chapel is situated prominently on a hill, overlooking the Nadder Valley.

Local climate

Zion Hill Chapel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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