Church of St Swithin is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Parish church.
Church of St Swithin
- WRENN ID
- knotted-ledge-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1985
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Swithin, Ganarew
- OS grid reference
- SO 529 163
- Coordinates
- 51.84358, -2.68439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Swithin is a parish church built around 1850 by J Pritchard of Llandaff. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a decorative tiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles. The church includes a nave, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry, all designed in the Decorated style.
The nave has two square-headed windows with hoodmoulds, which contain cusped ogee-headed lights and spandrels. There is a two-light window on the west side and a three-light window on the east side, flanking the gabled porch. At the west end, a square-set bellcote is partly supported by a central buttress and features similar cusped ogee-headed openings in square surrounds, topped with a spirelet that has decorative lucarnes. The chancel has three cusped ogee-headed lancets.
Inside, the church boasts a decorative arch-braced roof with moulded members and cusped wind-braces. There is also a mock sepulchral recess in the north wall of the chancel, adorned with cusping and crocket ornament.
Local climate
Church of St Swithin receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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