Mortuary Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Mortuary chapel.
Mortuary Chapel
- WRENN ID
- mired-threshold-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Address
- Mortuary Chapel, Towcester Road, Far Cotton and Delapre
- OS grid reference
- SP 746 582
- Coordinates
- 52.21725, -0.90894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mortuary Chapel, located on Towcester Road, is a late 19th-century building constructed of squared rubble ashlar. It is designed in the Perpendicular style and features an octagonal steeple at the south-west corner. The chapel has stone-coped gables and traceried windows that are set beneath hood mouldings.
Local climate
Mortuary 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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