Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Helen
- WRENN ID
- carved-cupola-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1969
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Helen, Longhorsley, NE65 8SY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 146 946
- Coordinates
- 55.24549, -1.77048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Helen is a former school that has been converted into a parish church. It is built of squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a 'T' plan and is a single storey.
On the south elevation, the left section has a two-bay design with a boarded door set under a four-centred arch and an outshut. The projecting right bay contains a three-light mullion-and-transom window with a hoodmould, flanked by smaller inserted windows, all beneath a coped gable with kneelers. The left section features a projecting porch from 1783, which was relocated from the old parish church in 1982. This porch has a pointed arch with a hollow-chamfered hood and is flanked by small diagonal buttresses. The gable behind the porch is coped with moulded kneelers and a ball finial. To the right, the end of the outshut has a six-pane casement window set in a re-set 16th or 17th-century chamfered stone surround.
Local climate
Church of St Helen receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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