---
title: "Guyhirn Chapel"
description: "Located in Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire. Built 1660, replacing a medieval church in the village. Grade II*. Commonwealth Puritan chapel style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Churches Conservation Trust","Cambridgeshire","Guyhirn","Grade II*","Commonwealth","Puritan"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/guyhirn-chapel-guyhirn"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:46:05.742Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T15:59:56.856Z"
location: "Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire"
country: "England"
county: "Cambridgeshire"
town: "Guyhirn"
address: "High Road, Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire, PE13 4ED"
postcode: "PE13 4ED"
built: "1660, replacing a medieval church in the village"
denomination: "Churches Conservation Trust"
grade: "II*"
style: "Commonwealth Puritan chapel"
materials: "Limestone ashlar with some reused stone; brick to west and north walls; pantiled roof"
openingHours: "Open by arrangement."
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1331986"
gridReference: "TF 403 040"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas"
---

# Guyhirn Chapel

Guyhirn Chapel of Ease is a Grade II* redundant chapel on High Road, Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire, a rare unaltered Commonwealth meeting house now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

## Overview

Historic England lists the Chapel of Ease (formerly the Old Church), dated 1660 on the lintel over the doorway, replacing a medieval church in the village. The fabric is limestone ashlar with some reused, possibly medieval, stone in the west buttress and plinth; brick to the west and north walls; and a pantiled roof with an open timber bellcote on the west gable. The plan is rectangular. Windows are of four plain round-headed lights: one in the west gable, two in the south wall and one each to east and north. A segmental-arched doorway sits at the west end of the south wall. Listing NGR is TF 40312 04018.

The interior retains original seventeenth-century stall pews and hat pegs. Part of an octagonal two-tier panelled pulpit survives on a modern base. The ceiling is plastered. The listing describes the chapel as an important example of ecclesiastical building during the Commonwealth and notes an association with the late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Culimites, whose leader David Culy is believed to have preached there. A Churches Conservation Trust guide records the date stone with the initials “RP” and that the land had belonged to Thomas Parke of Wisbech before passing to Peterhouse, Cambridge.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1331986](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1331986)