Church of St Denys is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Church.

Church of St Denys

WRENN ID
grim-porch-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rugby
Constituency
Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Denys, Pailton
OS grid reference
SP 471 818
Coordinates
52.43243, -1.30773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Denys is a Grade II listed building constructed in 1884. It is built of brick, featuring sandstone and limestone dressings, and has a plain tile roof. The church is designed in a Neo-Norman style, consisting of a nave with an apsidal chancel and a vestry to the north. The chancel includes round-headed windows that alternate with blind arcading supported by columns with cushion capitals and round-headed arches. There is a plinth, a string course below the windows, and a carved corbel table beneath the roof.

The nave has four bays and features a plank door set within a three-order doorway on the south aisle. There are three additional single round-headed windows on the south aisle and four on the north, each flanked by piers with cushion capitals. The walls are buttressed, and the west wall contains two round-headed lights with a circular piercing above.

Inside, the round-headed arches and chancel windows are supported by piers with cushion capitals, similar to the nave windows. The chancel arch and vestry door also reflect this design. The brick walls are unplastered, with window embrasures made of alternating limestone and sandstone, and there is one order of shafts on either side. The church features wagon roofs and a painted tile floor in the chancel. A carved sandstone pulpit located in the northeast of the nave has marble dressings.

Local climate

Church of St Denys receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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