Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Chapel.

Baptist Church

WRENN ID
inner-quartz-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1952
Type
Chapel
Address
Baptist Church, the Parks, Minehead
OS grid reference
SS 966 462
Coordinates
51.20569, -3.48111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Baptist Church in Minehead is a chapel built around 1821 and enlarged in 1902. The original part of the building is made of stucco and features a low-pitched slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with extensions added to the front in 1902 and to the rear around 1980. The church is a single storey with a two-window range. The original building is mostly obscured by the 20th-century extension, but the right side remains visible. This section has a dentilled cornice above a projecting Doric porch, which is now enclosed, and is flanked by tall semicircular arched windows with small coloured panes. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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