The Old Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Chapel.
The Old Chapel
- WRENN ID
- high-step-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Old Chapel, Shepton Montague
- OS grid reference
- ST 709 320
- Coordinates
- 51.08716, -2.41614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chapel is a 19th-century Chapel of Ease located in Shepton Montague. It is constructed from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof between coped gables. The north gable has an octagonal stone chimney stack, while the south gable includes a pitched roofed stone bell turret. The building has three bays with a west porch. Each bay contains three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with plain flat heads just below the eaves, and diamond pane cast iron casements are found in bays one and three, as well as in the south gable. The porch at bay two has a matching gabled pitched roof and features a plain boarded door set in a moulded four-centre archway. The interior has been stripped, and the roof structure is concealed by a curved ceiling. A bell with wheel remains is located in the turret.
Local climate
The Old Chapel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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