The Point in View is a Grade I listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1949. A 1811 Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
The Point in View
- WRENN ID
- sacred-shingle-sepia
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1949
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Point in View, Summer Lane, Exmouth, EX8 5BD
- OS grid reference
- SY 007 835
- Coordinates
- 50.64276, -3.4045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Point-in-View is an 1811 building located on Summer Lane in Withycombe Raleigh. It was constructed by the Misses Parminter as a small non-conformist chapel, surrounded by single-storey almshouses for four spinsters. One room, now known as the Vestry, was designated as a school for six "poor female children." The chapel is a low square structure rendered in white, featuring a central flat-roofed entrance porch and pointed windows with diagonal glazing bars. Above the chapel, a four-sided lead spire rises. Miss Jane Parminter is buried on the premises. In 1878, the Minister, the Reverend J F Guenett, designed a pipe organ for the chapel, notable for its horizontally laid pipes beneath the rostrum, rather than the usual vertical arrangement. The organ includes a folding console that also serves as a reading desk, optimizing the limited space in the small chapel.
Local climate
The Point in View receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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