Zion Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A C19 Chapel.

Zion Chapel

WRENN ID
tenth-tracery-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Chapel
Address
Zion Chapel, Flintergill, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 704 868
Coordinates
54.2764, -2.4559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Zion Chapel is a Congregational chapel, now functioning as a United Reformed church, which was built in 1835, as indicated by the date above the doorway. The building is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof. It has a rectangular plan oriented roughly east-west and consists of a single vessel.

On the exterior, the gabled west front is symmetrical and includes a round-headed doorway at the center. This doorway has a plain surround with simple imposts and a keystone, and it is fitted with a four-panelled door and a fanlight that features Gothick glazing bars. Above the doorway is a square datestone inscribed with "ZION / CHAPEL / 1835," and slightly above this are a pair of short round-headed blind windows with rubble voussoirs and painted Gothick glazing bars. The roof has a shallow pitch and projecting purlins, which were likely rebuilt in the late 19th or early 20th century, and there is a short chimney at the gable. Overlapping the front right-hand corner is a low single-storey church room that is not of special interest. The rear gable and both side walls feature two large round-headed windows with rubble voussoirs and Gothick glazing bars, and the north side and the rear have added buttresses that are strongly battered.

Inside, the chapel contains pitch-pine fittings and furnishings, including an internal porch, dado, benches, and a raised minister's desk. The chapel forms a group with the associated Congregational Manse located to the southwest.

Local climate

Zion Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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