Church House Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1960. Church, house.
Church House Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- crooked-baluster-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1960
- Type
- Church, house
- Address
- Church House Church of St Edmund, Church Lane, Thurlaston
- OS grid reference
- SP 468 709
- Coordinates
- 52.33441, -1.31329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church House, which incorporates the Church of St Edmund, was built in 1849 as a chapel-school designed by William Butterfield. It was intended to serve as a school during the week and a church on Sundays, with a schoolmaster's house attached. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brick with tile roofs, including ridge cresting, and has a brick internal stack to the rear. It combines a chancel, nave, north vestry, and a west tower that forms part of the house. It is an example of a simple Gothic Revival style.
The church comprises a one-bay chancel and a three-bay nave. The attached house is a one-unit plan, three storeys high, with a one-window range. The chancel features a simple plinth and tile-coped diagonal buttresses of two offsets, along with a three-light east window with Gothic tracery, using limestone tracery throughout. A small wooden window is present on the south side, and a small lean-to vestry has a chamfered straight-headed east window. The nave roof slopes lower than the chancel roof. Buttresses on the nave have a single offset. A south-west porch features a chamfered segmental-pointed arch, with open five-light wooden openings on each side, and a segmental-pointed double-leaf plank door inside. Two four-light windows with trefoiled lancets are also present. The north side has one window, and an outshut is located on the western part. The tower has wood cross windows with brick segmental arches and a pyramid roof with an arched wood bellcote and a steep pyramid roof. A two-storey range set back on the left has a segmental-pointed plank door and a hipped roof.
The interior of the church is plastered, with exposed red brick gables. The chancel has a segmental arched vestry door and a chamfered brick segmental-pointed chancel arch. Both the chancel and nave have arched brace roofs, with the nave also featuring king posts. The windows have run-out chamfered wood lintels. Original fittings include a stone font with a shaft of quatrefoil section and a chevron moulding, a quartered bowl with lozenge moulding, and simple chamfered benches. Later additions include mid-to-late 20th-century panelling and a pulpit. The church is oriented north-south.
Local climate
Church House Church of St Edmund receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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