Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Chapel.
Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- high-marble-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Unitarian Chapel, Mary Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 242
- Coordinates
- 51.01218, -3.10221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unitarian Chapel, built in 1721, features a façade that was altered with 19th-century stucco decoration. It is a two-storey building with heavy moulded cornices. Both storeys are divided by pairs of Corinthian pilasters at the centre. The chapel has a hipped old tile roof and five windows, with the end windows on the upper floor blocked. The windows have architrave surrounds with imposts and bases. The central doorcase is flanked by Corinthian pilasters that support a triangular pediment, and it features double three-panel doors. The doorway is flanked by wrought-iron lamps with scrolled standards. Inside, the chapel boasts a very good early 18th-century interior with square Corinthian columns that extend to the full height of the building, oak galleries, a carved pulpit, and brass chandeliers. The Unitarian Chapel, along with Mary Street House, the Lawn, and the School on Mary Street, forms a group with all the listed buildings in Mount Street and Vivary Park, as well as Wilton House in Hammets Walk and Nos 1 to 14 Upper High Street.
Local climate
Unitarian Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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