Providence Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Providence Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- turning-marble-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Providence Methodist Chapel, Throwleigh, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 675 893
- Coordinates
- 50.68831, -3.87695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Providence Methodist Chapel is a Methodist chapel, originally built for the Bible Christian denomination, dated 1839. It is said to have been constructed at the expense of R.D. Gay of nearby Providence Place. The chapel is made of plastered granite stone rubble that is lightly incised to resemble ashlar, and it has a slate roof.
The building is oriented with its side facing the road to the south-west. The entrance is located under a gallery at the right (south-east) end, with assembly rooms situated at the left end. The front of the chapel features a single tall window with a pointed head, which contains a pattern of 20th-century leaded glass. There are two similar windows at the rear. The roof is hipped at both ends.
On the right end, there is a doorway with a small gabled porch that includes a 20th-century door. Above this door is a small lead plaque inscribed with "Bible Christian Chapel, 1839." To the left of the chapel, there is a similar porch leading to the assembly rooms, accompanied by a sixteen-pane sash window on the left. This section has a lower gable-ended roof and contains two round-headed windows with Y-tracery glazing bars, along with another round-headed window above the main chapel porch.
Local climate
Providence Methodist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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