Chapel of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. Chapel.

Chapel of St Michael

WRENN ID
tattered-postern-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1965
Type
Chapel
Address
Chapel of St Michael, Braunton
OS grid reference
SS 491 373
Coordinates
51.11524, -4.15667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel of St Michael is a possibly 15th-century chapel located in Braunton. It is constructed of coursed shale rubble and features a battered plinth. The structure is a roofless single-cell ruin, with all four walls remaining intact almost to full height. The west gable end has a projecting portal with a depressed double arch, which may have originally supported a bellcote above. The south doorway is designed with a plain pointed arch, and there are window openings on the north, south, and east sides. The walls also contain numerous small square holes resembling putlog holes.

Local climate

Chapel of St Michael sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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