Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. A C19 Chapel.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- muted-obsidian-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1990
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, Church Street, Modbury
- OS grid reference
- SX 657 515
- Coordinates
- 50.34893, -3.88832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, founded in 1806, features a main front that was later updated in the 19th century. The building is rendered, with a slate-hung back and return, and has a hipped slate roof at the rear. The facade is pedimented and includes an arched central light with radial bars and a broad architrave that rises above a thin cornice. The full cornice moulding on the pediment slopes down and is adorned with a large scrolled central acroterion and smaller terminal acroteria.
At the front, there is a lower enclosed portico that contains three-light casements with round-headed lights under segmental heads, flanking a pair of panelled doors topped by a transom light that also has a segmental head. The building features plain end pilasters and panelled pilasters for the door unit, with sunk panels below the windows. A continuous frieze and cornice run along the top, capped by a blocking course. The back of the chapel has two arched sash windows at each of two levels, with a 12-panel design, but also includes a square light set into the glazing of the arch.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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