Church of St Barnabas and St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1966. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Barnabas and St Nicholas

WRENN ID
muted-pediment-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Constituency
Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 October 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Barnabas and St Nicholas, Burmington
OS grid reference
SP 263 379
Coordinates
52.03931, -1.61707
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas and St Nicholas is a church that likely dates back to the 13th century, with significant rebuilding occurring in 1693 and further alterations in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, featuring a plinth, quoins, and coped gables, topped with a concrete tile roof. The church consists of a chancel with a north vestry, a nave, and a north-west bell turret.

The chancel has two bays and includes a 19th-century three-light window in the Early English style, which has plate tracery and a hood mould with carved label stops. Below this window is a string course with carved labels at each end. The north vestry features a plank door with a chamfered, shouldered arch, and to the east, there is a two-light chamfered window with shouldered-arch heads. The south side has two 19th-century lancet windows with chamfered surrounds.

The nave, which has three bays, includes a 19th-century gabled porch with a pointed arch doorway that has Early English style shafts and capitals within a double chamfered surround. There is also a 19th-century pointed arch doorway with a double chamfered surround and a plank door. The north and south sides of the nave have single and paired lancets with chamfered surrounds. The north-west bell turret, built in the 19th century, has two stages with offset angle buttresses. It features a plank door within a chamfered, round shouldered arch, and above this, there are small single-chamfered lights on the first and second stages.

Inside, the chancel has an Early English style cusped piscina with a moulded surround in the north wall. The chancel arch is pointed and chamfered, dating from the 13th century, and includes two possibly re-used corbels, one with a trumpet-scalloped capital and the other with a stylized foliage capital. There is a 19th-century west gallery, along with 19th-century corbels and roofs. The font may be medieval but has been re-worked, and there is a 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite crucifixion panel in the north nave window.

Local climate

Church of St Barnabas and St Nicholas receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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