Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Chapel.

Unitarian Chapel

WRENN ID
outer-gravel-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Northampton North MP: Lucy Rigby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1976
Type
Chapel
Address
Unitarian Chapel, Kettering Road, Northampton
OS grid reference
SP 761 608
Coordinates
52.24091, -0.88621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Unitarian Chapel, built in 1896 by Charles Dorman, is designed in the Decorated Gothic style. It features stone-dressed red brick and is topped with a Welsh slated roof. The chapel has an octagonal turret with a spire and a large window beneath the gable. On the right side, there are two pinnacled buttresses, and the building includes a two-storey wing with a pair of gables.

Local climate

Unitarian Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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