Church of St Werburgh is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Church.
Church of St Werburgh
- WRENN ID
- peeling-moulding-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Werburgh, Church Street, Kingsley
- OS grid reference
- SK 013 469
- Coordinates
- 53.01954, -1.98152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Werburgh is a parish church located in Kingsley, with its origins dating back to the 13th century for the base and a 14th-century tower. The nave was designed by Trubshaw in 1820, and the chancel was added by Lynham in 1886. The church is constructed from coursed dressed and squared stone of ashlar quality, with the chancel being rough-faced. The nave features a slate roof, while the chancel has a tiled roof, both with verge parapets.
The structure includes a tower, nave (with a south porch), and chancel. The tower consists of four stages, with large diagonal buttresses on the west sides and a crenellated parapet on a raised string that supports gargoyles at the centers. The bell chamber has pointed openings with two lights and trefoils above, while the lower stages have small lancets and a flat-headed two-light mullioned west window above a Tudor-arch door.
The nave has a wide plan that extends beyond the tower to the north and is divided into four bays by two-stage buttresses. It features cavetto eaves and pointed windows with Y-tracery. The south porch has a flat roof behind a parapet, angle buttresses, and a pointed arch entry. The north door is adorned with a brattished cornice set between buttresses.
The chancel consists of three bays, with the eastern bay being larger, and is divided by gabletted two-stage buttresses. It has Y-tracery windows in the west and center bays on the south side, and a five-light pointed east window with a low-relief carved panel below. A vestry is set against the north side of the chancel.
Local climate
Church of St Werburgh receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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