Fivehead Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Chapel.
Fivehead Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- silent-threshold-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- ST 353 229
- Coordinates
- 51.002, -2.92305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fivehead Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel built in 1860 and enlarged in 1869. It is constructed of coursed and squared lias stone and lias rubble, with brick dressings and slate roofs that feature brackets at the eaves. The main structure is a rectangular hall, with a later school room wing at the rear, creating a T-shaped plan. The main entrance front consists of two bays, featuring pointed-arch casements with Gothick glazing in the heads, and similar windows on the sides. The rear wing has sash windows with glazing bars. The porch has paired plank doors, likely added later, with a pointed-arch transom light and Gothick glazing. Inside the chapel, there are original features such as a central plaster rosette on the ceiling, painted texts on the walls, and memorials, along with pews.
Local climate
Fivehead Baptist Chapel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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