High Head Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Private chapel.
High Head Chapel
- WRENN ID
- winding-obsidian-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Private chapel
- Address
- High Head Chapel, Skelton
- OS grid reference
- NY 404 436
- Coordinates
- 54.78379, -2.92776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Head Chapel is a private chapel for High Head Castle that is now disused. It is dated and inscribed over the entrance with "CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND ESQ, EDWARD HASELL ESQ, ANNO DOMINI 1682" and has 18th-century alterations. The chapel features red sandstone rubble walls that are partly covered with cement render. It has a graduated greenslate roof with an east cross finial and a west open bellcote. The structure consists of a 5-bay nave and chancel.
There is a south-west 18th-century segmental-arched doorway and pointed-arched window openings, all with red sandstone surrounds. One blocked 2-light stone-mullioned window is visible where the render has fallen away. A small 17th-century chamfered-surround opening is located on the west side. The north wall has one pointed-arched window and one 17th-century 2-light stone-mullioned window. The larger east pointed-arched window is situated under a 17th-century stone inscribed with the names of the churchwardens.
Inside, the chapel has a partitioned porch and boarded ceilings. There are panelled pews, although many have been partly removed, along with all other furnishings and fittings. At the time of the survey, the windows and doors had been removed, and the chapel was in a derelict condition.
Local climate
High Head Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Garden Gate, Piers and Wall Immediately North of Eighteenth Century Wing of High Head Castle
- Servants' Wing North West of High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing
- High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing
- Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle
- Tudor Wing West of High Head Castle
- Gate Piers Beside the Lodge North of High Head Castle
- Thistlewood Tower
- Thistlewood House
- Roehill
- High Bridge