St John's Hospital Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1951. A Medieval Chapel.
St John's Hospital Chapel
- WRENN ID
- calm-tracery-bramble
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1951
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St John's Hospital Chapel, 3, St John's Square, Wilton
- OS grid reference
- SU 094 314
- Coordinates
- 51.0822, -1.86699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Hospital Chapel is a Grade II* listed building that is part of the St John's Hospital Complex. The first documentary evidence of the site dates back to 1195, with a chapel reportedly dedicated in 1217. The chapel forms a 'T' plan extension to Nos 4 and 5. Its east window, which has three lights, suggests it was built around 1300. In the 18th century, it was converted into a cottage and was restored in 1868. The exterior features flint and ashlar chequerwork, a tiled roof with a fishscale band, and a coped gable with an unusual saddlestone on the east side. There is a mid-19th century belfry on the ashlar and flint chequed gable end. On the north side, there are two 2-light windows that likely date from the late 14th century; the left window has a quatrefoil above it, while the right window features an elongated quatrefoil. The south side has a 2-light ogee window with an elongated upright quatrefoil. There are traces of two possible 12th-century wall buttresses. The entrance features a moulded four-centred arch-headed doorway to the left, with restored tracery panels. The interior is plain, with curved braces supporting the trusses.
Local climate
St John's Hospital Chapel receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings