Church of St Gregory (Vale of Lune Chapel) is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1983. Chapel.
Church of St Gregory (Vale of Lune Chapel)
- WRENN ID
- eastward-bailey-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Church of St Gregory (Vale of Lune Chapel), A 684, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 634 921
- Coordinates
- 54.32402, -2.56384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Gregory, also known as the Vale of Lune Chapel, is a chapel located at the Ingmire Hall Estate in Sedbergh. It was built in 1850 as a Mission Chapel and was altered and enlarged in 1907. The structure features mixed random rubble with red sandstone quoins and a graduated slate roof topped with a wooden and glazed lantern. The gabled front was rebuilt, and a porch was added, constructed of snecked rubble with yellow sandstone dressings and quoins.
The chapel has a small nave oriented on a north-south axis, with a north porch and a south chancel that is designed as a crosswing, functioning as a single vessel with short transepts. The porch, dating from 1907, includes a small rectangular window at the front, a memorial plaque commemorating Florence Ann Upton Cottrell Dormer, who died in 1907, above it, and a coped gable parapet with kneelers. There is also a doorway on the west side of the porch featuring a gablet that displays the Ingmire Hall cross.
The main gable of the chapel has an ashlar bellcote, flanked by coped gable parapets with kneelers. The west side wall contains three rectangular one-light windows with raised plain surrounds. The gable of the south wing features a central gabled extension, with similar windows on either side and another above. The roof includes a long low lantern with five segmental-headed lights and oversailing bracketed eaves leading to a swept hipped roof. The east side, which abuts an adjoining cottage, has no windows.
Inside, the chapel features a panelled dado, chancel pews with carved ends, and windows adorned with wooden architraves and elaborate stained glass, which predominantly exhibits Art Nouveau influences.
Local climate
Church of St Gregory (Vale of Lune Chapel) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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