Bethesda Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. A C19 Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Bethesda Chapel
- WRENN ID
- grey-copper-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bethesda Chapel, South Street, Uley, GL11 5SS
- OS grid reference
- ST 790 983
- Coordinates
- 51.68368, -2.30492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bethesda Chapel, now an Arts Centre, was built in 1811. It features squared and coursed limestone with a moulded eaves cornice and a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building is a single cell structure with a hexagonal south end and has a single-storey hipped cross-wing attached at the north end, which has a stone slate roof. The flanks are two storeys high with two windows on each side, and there is one window on each facet of the half-hexagon. All windows are segmental-headed sashes with very slender glazing bars set in a plat-band with a keystone. The central door in the hexagon has a pair of three-panel fielded doors topped by a segmental-headed three-pane transom light. Above the doors is an inscription panel on square corbel blocks, lettered in fine 19th-century serifs, stating 'BETHESDA MDCCCXI'.
The interior has been much modified but retains a fine king-post roof, which includes radial half-trusses in the hexagon and a triple purlin, all exposed to view, as the former plaster ceiling has been removed.
Local climate
Bethesda Chapel receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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