Chapel, Fairleigh Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Chapel.

Chapel, Fairleigh Castle

WRENN ID
fallen-forge-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Chapel
Address
Chapel, Fairleigh Castle, Norton St. Philip
OS grid reference
ST 797 569
Coordinates
51.31141, -2.29139
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel at Farleigh Castle, now serving as a school kitchen and dining room, dates from around 1806. It is built from ashlar Doulting stone and features a concrete slate gabled roof in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The building is single-storey and has an L-plan layout with a three-window east front. The windows are three-light stone mullioned and transom types, with four-centre arches and stopped dripmoulds. The gable end includes diagonally set two-stage buttresses and a four-light window with rectilinear tracery under a pointed arch, also featuring a stopped dripmould and a clock face above. The stepped end gable is topped with an octagonal lantern that has stone grills for openings, a cornice, and a short spire. The chapel is adorned with embattled parapets and crocketted pinnacles.

Local climate

Chapel, Fairleigh Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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