Former Congregational Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.

Former Congregational Chapel

WRENN ID
scarred-quoin-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Chapel
Address
Former Congregational Chapel, 28, High Street, Bruton, BA10 0AE
OS grid reference
ST 682 348
Coordinates
51.11202, -2.45447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Congregational Chapel, now an art gallery, is a building that underwent 19th-century remodelling of an 18th-century house. It is constructed of Doulting stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof behind parapets. The chapel is designed in a plain 18th-century Gothick style and features two storeys with a symmetrical five-bay façade, where the third bay projects slightly. The building has a plinth, plain pilasters, a cornice, and a plain parapet.

The windows are 'Y'-traceried two-light pointed windows in plain surrounds, with original leading in the first bay. There are pointed arched doorways in the second and fourth bays; the second bay has part window tracery above, while the fourth bay features an ornate traceried fanlight. The central bay is highlighted by a Gothic-style pointed moulded arch, an arched label with headstops, and a four-centre sub-area over a pair of doors, which includes a tympanum scroll with the legend 'Congre-gational - Chapel.' Above this, there is a 19th-century four-light grouped lancet window, topped by a Dutch-style gable that contains an open quatrefoil panel in a circular recess.

Inside, the chapel gallery remains, along with some fine early 20th-century stained glass in the south windows. The building was newly rebuilt in 1768 and was initially leased as a house and silk mill before being converted into a chapel in 1803. Further alterations in 1836 gave the building its current form.

Local climate

Former Congregational 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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