Chapel of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1991. Chapel. 4 related planning applications.
Chapel of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- sunken-barrel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1991
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St John the Baptist, Tiverton, EX16 7RX
- OS grid reference
- SS 957 193
- Coordinates
- 50.96393, -3.48576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St John the Baptist is an Anglican chapel, recently made redundant, built between 1854 and 1855 by Edward Ashworth of Exeter. The chapel is constructed from dressed and snecked slatestone with limestone dressings, and has slate roofs with bracketed kneelers to dressed stone coped gables. It is designed in a Decorated Gothic Revival style, and includes a chancel, a north vestry, and a nave with a south porch.
The chancel has a single bay and features a three-light east window and a one-light, ogee-headed side window. The north vestry contains a single-light window. The nave, with three bays, has two-light windows with varied tracery; the hoodmoulds above these windows are finely carved with head stops.
Inside, the chancel has a boarded, pointed-arched roof, while the nave has a braced roof. There is a double-chamfered pointed chancel arch and a chamfered pointed-arched doorway to the vestry. Fittings include a Gothic style altar rail with dagger tracery, creed boards in the chancel, and stained glass windows dating from the mid to late 19th century. The chapel represents a competent work by a recognized local Ecclesiological architect.
Local climate
Chapel of St John the Baptist receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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
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