Anchor Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1967. Folly. 1 related planning application.

Anchor Church

WRENN ID
bitter-pilaster-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 1967
Type
Folly
Address
Anchor Church, Milton Road, Foremark
OS grid reference
SK 339 272
Coordinates
52.84148, -1.49815
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Anchor Church is a late 18th-century folly created from a natural cave that has been enlarged and shaped. It is made of sandstone and features a roughly rectangular room carved into the cliff of the escarpment south of the River Trent. The building includes a round arched doorway and several roughly rectangular window openings. Inside, the space is hollowed out into two rooms that are divided by a two-bay arcade. This structure is traditionally associated with an anchorite.

Local climate

Anchor Church receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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