Church of St Helen, Kilnsea is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 2018. Church.
Church of St Helen, Kilnsea
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-finial-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 2018
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Helen, Kilnsea, St Helen's Church, Kilnsea Road, Holderness, Easington, HU12 0UB
- OS grid reference
- TA 411 158
- Coordinates
- 53.62003, 0.13193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Helen in Kilnsea is a 19th-century building, constructed between 1864 and 1865, designed by William Burges. It is now a private dwelling, having been converted in the early 21st century.
The church features red brick and white brick with limestone dressings, topped with a Westmorland slate roof. It is a small church oriented east-west, set within a small graveyard. The structure includes a five-bay nave and a lower, single-bay chancel. The nave has a south porch and a west bellcote, while the chancel includes a north vestry.
The exterior displays red brick in Flemish bond, accented by narrow bands of white brick and a white brick eaves cornice. The windows are pointed-arch lancets with stone sills, polychrome brick heads, stone keystones, and small diamond-pane leaded glazing. A high plinth with a chamfered brick top and shallow buttresses with chamfered stone tops define the bays. Both the nave and chancel roofs feature stone coping and decorative ridge tiles.
The south elevation, facing the road, has lancets in the first, third, fourth, and fifth bays. The second bay includes a small gabled porch with stone coping and decorative ridge tiles on the slate roof, featuring a decorative geometric carved stone at the gable apex. Below this is a pointed arch doorway with a polychrome brick head and stone keystone, flanked by double timber doors with decorative iron strap hinges. At the west end, the roof is topped with a polychrome brick bellcote adorned with an iron cruciform finial.
The east gabled wall of the chancel showcases a tripartite window composed of three pointed-arch lancets, with the central lancet being slightly taller. This window features a stone sill, polychrome brick heads, stone keystones, and an overarching polychrome pointed arch integrated into the brickwork. Similarly, the west gabled wall of the nave has a tripartite lancet window with matching features. The gable apex is topped by the bellcote.
The interior of the church was not inspected.
Local climate
Church of St Helen, Kilnsea receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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