Church of St Wulstan is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Wulstan
- WRENN ID
- other-remnant-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Wulstan, A 449, Little Malvern, WR14 4JL
- OS grid reference
- SO 770 409
- Coordinates
- 52.06665, -2.33564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Wulstan is a Roman Catholic church built in 1862 by B Bucknall. It features rubble construction with limestone dressings and a slate roof. The church includes a nave, a south transept, and a south baptistry. The windows showcase Geometrical tracery, and there is a prominent rose window at the west end. The west doorway is pointed and moulded in three orders, complete with angle shafts, and is topped by a gabled band. Some of the carving is unfinished, with rough stone blocks set aside for head stops, crockets, and gargoyles.
The north wall of the nave consists of five bays separated by buttresses, each bay containing windows with two pointed lights and quatrefoils. The north wall of the transept has three gabled bays, featuring windows with three trefoiled lights and tracery. The south wall of the nave has one bay to the west of the hexagonal baptistry and five to the east, with the baptistry itself having chamfered pointed windows. A turret is located at the south end of the south transept, which has a gable facing east with two upper-level windows, each containing two traceried lights. The east wall of the nave is made of brick and includes a blocked chancel arch and a blocked arch leading to a crypt, while the chancel remains unbuilt.
Inside, the windows have inner stone arches separated by slim shafts that support the roof trusses, which are adorned with carved braces leading to high collars. At the west end, there is a pitch pine gallery that houses an organ. A three-bay arcade of pointed arches opens into the vaulted north transept, and the blocked chancel arch is moulded and pointed.
Local climate
Church of St Wulstan 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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