Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt
- WRENN ID
- heavy-moat-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt, Upton, TA4 2HX
- OS grid reference
- SS 999 289
- Coordinates
- 51.05111, -3.42932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ebenezer Chapel, along with its gatepiers, railings, and enclosing forecourt, dates from 1878. The chapel is built of squared and irregularly coursed local stone, with buff brick dressings, quoins, a plinth, and a slate roof with overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards. The plan comprises a single cell with a store room in the basement, on the north front. The land slopes steeply northwards. The south front features long, pointed arch windows with translucent glass, flanking a pointed arch double door with decorative hinges. A datestone with a semi-circular head, brick voussoirs, and jambs is inscribed "Ebenezer 1878". Two-bay returns have similar pointed arch windows above a chamfered plinth. A circular window is set in the gable end of the north front, below the plinth, and a plank door leads to the basement store, which has a two-light wooden mullioned window to the right. The interior was inaccessible during the survey in June 1985.
A narrow, rectangular forecourt fronts the chapel. It is defined by square brick piers in the corners, which bear undressed lumps of granite. The forecourt has a dwarf wall of squared and irregularly coursed local stone, with saddleback brick coping, and cast iron trefoil-headed railings to the front wall. The returns and rear have wrought iron or cut-out iron railings.
Historically, in the mid-19th century, the settlement of Ragland Castle became more important than Upton due to its position on the toll road, and the name was transferred when the Church of St James was rebuilt.
Local climate
Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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