Lynch Chapel of Ease is a Grade II* listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Medieval Chapel.
Lynch Chapel of Ease
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bailey-crimson
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Lynch Chapel of Ease, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 900 476
- Coordinates
- 51.21741, -3.57587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lynch Chapel of Ease is an Anglican chapel dating from around 1530, which was restored in 1880, with a porch added around 1904. The building features random rubble lias construction, diagonal buttresses, a chamfered plinth, a slate roof, coped verges, and decorative ridge tiles. It consists of a single cell that includes a nave and chancel, along with a south porch.
The south front has a gabled single-storey porch added in memory of Henry Goddard, who died in 1904. There is a triple lancet window on the west front, with a chamfered four-centred arch inner doorway and a 19th-century door. To the right, there is a two-light window under a hoodmould, and the east window, which has been largely rebuilt, contains two sets of four lights. The north front features a two-light window and a blocked four-centred arch doorway, with a similar blocked doorway at the west end.
Inside, the walls are painted rubble, and the chapel has a renewed ribbed open wagon roof, although the sanctuary is ceiled over. A west end singing gallery was constructed from old pews in 1930 by Mr. W H R Blacking. The interior also includes a panelled dado, an ogee-headed piscina, and two brackets for statues flanking the altar.
Local climate
Lynch Chapel of Ease sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 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.
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