Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Chapel.

Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
dark-gravel-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
Chapel
Address
Baptist Chapel, Millway, Bradninch
OS grid reference
ST 000 039
Coordinates
50.82638, -3.42098
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Baptist chapel, dated 1832, with rear extensions from 1870 and the 20th century, and a front porch added in 1917. The building is rendered and has a gabled slate roof. It is two storeys high with a front that has three bays under a gable end featuring a parapet and a diamond-shaped datestone in the gable wall. Each bay has a triangular-headed window, divided by giant pilasters with moulded capitals, and identical pilaster quoins. The middle bay is wider than the others. The upper windows are two lights, triangular headed, with eight panes per light and diamond-shaped top lights. The ground-floor side windows are similar but were originally entrances before the central porch was added; they are flat-roofed, with an entrance on the left side and a three-light square-headed window at the front.

The side elevations have five windows, three for the 'nave' and two for the 'chancel', with some blocked towards the entrance end. The two-light triangular-headed windows on the left side 'nave' have lost their top lights due to a double-glazing scheme in the 1980s, while the right-hand side windows retain their original glazing with eight panes per light. The red brick rear extension, built for a schoolroom in 1870, and a roughcast room from the 20th century supported on stilts do not have special architectural character.

Inside, the chapel features a plain ceiled roof and a timber gallery at the entrance end, which has three pairs of panels with Greek key motifs divided by pilasters, all under a moulded cornice and rail, accessed by a staircase with turned balusters. The porch window includes a First World War memorial window depicting St George, St Michael, and Joan of Arc.

Local climate

Baptist Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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