Emmanuel Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.

Emmanuel Church

WRENN ID
sharp-bastion-nettle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gedling
Constituency
Gedling MP: Michael Payne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1987
Type
Church
Address
Emmanuel Church, Woodchurch Road, St. Albans, NG5 9QP
OS grid reference
SK 566 464
Coordinates
53.01215, -1.15739
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Emmanuel Church is a parish church dating to 1868, designed by S. S. Teulon and funded by the 10th Duke of St. Albans. It is constructed of rockfaced ashlar with plain ashlar dressings, featuring gabled, hipped, and conical slate roofs, and is built in a 13th-century French Gothic style. The church has a chamfered plinth and a moulded sill band, with windows consisting of chamfered lancets featuring polychrome heads. The west end includes a central porch with a coped gable, a cross, and a slab roof, displaying a moulded pointed opening with round shafts.

The interior features a stone seat and a three-bay arcade containing a central memorial panel to Sybil, Duchess of St. Albans, dating from around 1873, flanked by single lancets, as well as a vaulted roof and further single lancets. A central round window sits above this, with a trefoil above it. The west gable is topped with a shouldered gabled bell turret and a cross. The nave, spanning four bays, has paired lancets on each side, flanked by single lancets, and the south side has two buttresses to the east. The chancel apse is defined by five lancets and a finial cross. A vestry with a pointed door and a double shoulder lancet is located to the west, while a pulpit turret with three lancets and a conical roof is situated to the west. The south porch is distinguished by two flanking buttresses, a chamfered doorway, a coped gable with a dove in a roundel, and two lancets on each side.

The church interior also features a common rafter roof, a chamfered doorway, a painted dado, window heads, a scissor braced, matchboarded roof, a central recess with two memorial windows, a marble portrait plaque, and another memorial window, all dedicated to Sybil, Duchess of St. Albans, dated 1873. The plaque was created by Princess Louise. The chancel features an arch supported by foliate corbels, an arched organ opening, a blind arcaded dado from 1898, and a moulded sill band. The apse has a ribbed, domed construction. Stencilled decoration is present throughout the building. There are five stained glass memorial windows based on designs from 1870, executed by Morris & Co. in 1911. Fittings include an octagonal ashlar font, a pierced pulpit, cross-frame benches, pierced stalls and desks, a memorial lectern from 1885, a bronze War Memorial plaque from 1918, and a 20th-century brass and wooden panel.

Local climate

Emmanuel Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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