Parish Church and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Church.
Parish Church and Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- graven-copper-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church and Boundary Wall, the Green, Besthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 825 647
- Coordinates
- 53.17336, -0.76621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church, built in 1844, is constructed of brick and features Welsh slate and stone slab roofs, along with stone dressings and coped gables with kneelers. The church includes a nave with an apse, a gabled south porch, and a bell turret. The south front showcases a central porch with a coped gable and cross, a four-centred arched doorway with a label mould and a close boarded door, flanked by two double lancets with Y tracery. The apse contains three single lancets and has a pitched roof. The bell turret features a single lancet on each side, modillioned eaves, and a pyramidal slab roof topped with a cross.
Inside, the walls are rendered except for the window reveals. The brick chancel arch has a moulded ashlar soffit, responds, and quoins. At the west end, two wood-cased iron columns support the bell turret. The nave roof includes a tie beam with three decorative pendants, supported by curved brackets on carved wooden corbels. Queen posts with arch braces lead to the purlins, and curved brackets form mouchettes in the spandrels. The apse roof is semi-circular with common rafters. The church has plain 19th-century deal pews and a communion rail from 1898.
The boundary wall is made of brick and features cast iron coping that supports ornate cast iron railings and a gate.
Local climate
Parish Church and Boundary Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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