Church of St Jude is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1977. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Jude
- WRENN ID
- stony-chancel-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Jude, Tettenhall Road, City of Wolverhampton, WV6 0BZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 897 993
- Coordinates
- 52.59228, -2.15239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Jude was built between 1867 and 1869, with a later 19th-century spire designed by T.H.Fleeming. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and tile roofs. The church includes a chancel, a north organ loft, a south vestry, a four-bay nave with transepts and lean-to aisles, and a south-west steeple. The architectural style is Decorated Gothic.
The chancel has a coped gable and shallow offset buttresses, with a four-light east window and a traceried lancet to the north. The gabled organ loft features a two-light window. The vestry has a gablet, a three-light window, and a stack to the east. The transepts both have four-light windows, while the aisles have two-light windows between shallow offset buttresses. The north aisle has a three-light window to the west of the gabled porch and a two-light west window. The clerestories have two-light segmental-pointed windows. The four-light west window has a trefoil above and a gable cross.
The four-stage tower has angle buttresses and a south-west stair turret. The west entrance has one order on squat shafts, and a south two-light window with plate tracery, with weathering above. The second stage features lancets, the third stage has roundels as clock faces, and the top stage has two-light louvred bell openings. The top of the tower has an openwork parapet with pinnacles and flying buttresses leading to an octagonal spire.
Inside, the chancel arch has short corbelled shafts, and the roof is supported by scissor trusses. An arcading runs along the east wall, with a central reredos incorporating a roof and gablet on marble shafts, flanked by panels depicting the Creed and Commandments. A timber altar is present. The nave arcades are supported on round, polished granite piers with stiff leaf capitals, and the transepts have arches of a similar style. There is a 20th-century false ceiling and low glazed screens to the west. The stalls have arcaded fronts, and there is a brass altar rail. A timber pulpit sits on a stone base, featuring parquetry in the arcading and a bowed seat to the left. A brass lectern, with angels on pinnacles, is also present. The octagonal font is set on a squat pier with richly carved arcading. Stained glass is featured in the east and west windows. The chancel south wall memorializes Mary Davis (died 1886) with a richly carved Gothic aedicule. The south transept contains a war memorial.
Local climate
Church of St Jude receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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