Church of St Gabriel is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Church.
Church of St Gabriel
- WRENN ID
- first-bronze-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Gabriel, B 4209, Hanley Castle
- OS grid reference
- SO 810 427
- Coordinates
- 52.08297, -2.27844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Gabriel is a church built between 1872 and 1874 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, designed in a late 13th-century style. It is constructed from squared rock-faced stone and features a slate roof. The church includes a nave with a clerestorey, north and south aisles, a north porch, a north-east tower, and a lower chancel.
The tower consists of three stages with angle buttresses and is topped by a stone spire that has three rows of lucarnes. The bell openings are pointed and feature clustered shafts with two lights and quatrefoils. The middle stage has an arcade of three blind pointed arches, with a lancet window in the center. The north window has two lancet lights under a pointed head, while the aisles, which are five bays long, have windows with two lancet lights. The clerestorey windows are round and cinquefoiled.
The north porch, located in the western bay, is made of timber and has scalloped bargeboards. At the west end of the nave, there is a moulded pointed doorway and two windows, each with two lancet lights and a trefoil under a pointed head. The chancel windows consist of two lancet lights with cinquefoils, and the east window features five lights with tracery.
Inside, the church has four-bay arcades with pointed arches that are chamfered in two orders, resting on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Both arcades include a narrower fifth arch at the west end. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed. The nave roof has raised tie-beams, crown-posts, and soulaces to the collars, with secondary plates and ashlar pieces at tie-beam level. The chancel floor is made of encaustic tiles and features an alabaster reredos designed by Clayton and Bell, made by Powell's, flanked by tiles with floral patterns. An organ is set within an arch on the north side. The east window contains late 19th-century glass depicting Christ and the four Evangelists.
Local climate
Church of St Gabriel receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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