Tower of Former Church of St Thomas A Becket is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. Church tower. 6 related planning applications.
Tower of Former Church of St Thomas A Becket
- WRENN ID
- third-gable-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1972
- Type
- Church tower
- Address
- Tower of Former Church of St Thomas A Becket, Stratford Road, Ettington, CV37 7NU
- OS grid reference
- SP 265 492
- Coordinates
- 52.14122, -1.61358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower of the former Church of St Thomas a Becket, built between 1795 and 1798 by Thomas Johnson, is located on Stratford Road in Ettington. The rest of the church was demolished in 1913. The tower is constructed of blue lias limestone ashlar with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a pyramidal stone slate roof.
The exterior consists of a two-stage tower with small side projections, a plat band over the lower stage, and a top cornice. The pointed arched entrance has a stepped arch and a grille above paired three-panel doors, along with a panel above. The upper stage contains bell openings with four-centred heads on each face, and the side openings retain Y-tracery. Each projection has a hipped roof, which is partly destroyed, and a pointed window with a grille, a panel above, and a top cornice.
The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this church replaced the partly ruined Holy Trinity church near Ettington Park and was itself replaced by the current church of Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury in 1903. The tower is now part of a private garden, and the graveyard still contains headstones and a large monument marking the site of the Shirley graves.
Local climate
Tower of Former Church of St Thomas A Becket 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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