Baptist Chapel, Attached Schoolroom, Forecourt Wall with Railings, Gate Piers and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Chapel, schoolroom.
Baptist Chapel, Attached Schoolroom, Forecourt Wall with Railings, Gate Piers and Gates
- WRENN ID
- endless-loggia-tide
- 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, schoolroom
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, Attached Schoolroom, Forecourt Wall with Railings, Gate Piers and Gates, Lower Rudge, Beckington
- OS grid reference
- ST 828 517
- Coordinates
- 51.26481, -2.24711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, attached schoolroom, forecourt wall with railings, gate piers, and gates, dated 1839, is constructed of random rubble for the chapel and schoolroom, with frontages rendered to imitate ashlar and rusticated ashlar quoins. The roofs are slate, with the chapel's ridge running at right angles to the gabled facade, which features a coping and a painted plaque in the center stating "Baptist Chapel 1839." A circular zinc ventilation cupola is also present. The building has a plain appearance, with the schoolroom on the left being a single-storey, one-bay structure, while the chapel has a two-storey frontage with two bays. All window openings are in plain semi-circular headed stone surrounds, featuring sash windows with glazing bars that create a radiating pattern at each head. The chapel includes a central ashlar gabled porch with a segmental-headed door opening and a nine-panelled inner door with a latch mechanism. The schoolroom door consists of four panels in a plain stone surround. Inside, the galleried area features a panelled pulpit on a plinth, accessed by three steps to the right, with a ramped handrail on plain balusters and turned newel posts. The gallery has a frontage of seven panels with a moulded handrail, integral pens, and is supported by twin square wooden columns flanking a central aisle, with recessed panels on each face. The forecourt is enclosed by plain cast iron railings with slightly twisted finials, set on a low ashlar plinth, with two gates in a similar style and three ashlar piers topped with pyramidal cappings.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel, Attached Schoolroom, Forecourt Wall with Railings, Gate Piers and Gates receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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