Tottlebank Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. A Georgian Chapel.
Tottlebank Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- winding-ashlar-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Tottlebank Baptist Chapel, Colton, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 314 844
- Coordinates
- 54.25156, -3.05371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tottlebank Baptist Chapel is a chapel built around 1750, with alterations and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The building is one storey high and consists of seven bays. The first two bays serve as a schoolroom, which was added in 1864, while the end bay functions as a vestry. The chapel features segmental-headed windows with small-paned glazing and coloured glass margin lights. There are segmental-headed entrances located between the second and third bays and the sixth and seventh bays, each with paired two-panel doors. A gable-end stack is positioned at the right-hand end, and the roof is hipped at the left-hand end. The rear of the chapel includes a two-bay gabled transept and a gabled wing with a stack for the schoolroom. Inside, there is a 19th-century pulpit and altar rail with turned balusters located at the centre of the wall opposite the transept, along with 19th-century pews, which are sloped in the transept area. The congregation was formed in 1669, making it the oldest Baptist church in the historic county of Lancashire.
Local climate
Tottlebank Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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