Chapel of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Chapel.
Chapel of St John
- WRENN ID
- grey-pewter-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St John, the Square, Hartland, EX39 6BL
- OS grid reference
- SS 258 244
- Coordinates
- 50.99273, -4.48244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St John is a Church of England chapel built in 1839 at the request of the then rector, William Chanter. It features stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof. The chapel has a rectangular plan that runs north-south, with a two-storey porch on the east side.
The exterior includes five bays on each long side wall, divided by rubble buttresses with offsets. On the east side, bays one, four, and five have original two-light Y-tracery windows with two-centred heads. The west wall has windows in bays one, three, and five, while a similar style three-light window is located on the south wall. The large crenellated two-storey porch is situated in the central bay and features a four-centred rubble arch with set-back buttresses at the corners. Above the arch is an original clock with a datestone from 1839, and there is a timber bell-cote above it. The original gates lead to a doorway with panelled double doors set in a two-centred head doorway. This chapel replaced the town hall, which was a 17th-century arcaded structure.
Local climate
Chapel of St John sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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