Parish Church of St Owen is a Grade I listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. A Medieval Church.

Parish Church of St Owen

WRENN ID
south-newel-linden
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 July 1964
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Parish Church of St Owen, Bromham
OS grid reference
TL 013 512
Coordinates
52.15034, -0.52013
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Owen is an isolated church primarily built between the 13th and 15th centuries, with renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features coursed limestone rubble walls and a tiled roof. The chancel, nave, and north aisle date from the 13th century, while the west tower and porch were added in the 15th century. The chancel consists of three bays and includes a 14th-century piscina with a ribbed canopy. The battlemented nave has a three-bay 13th-century north arcade and mostly 15th-century windows, along with a four-bay 15th-century roof. The north porch has a parvise above, with a notable wooden door and window. The south porch contains a library room above, marked with a datestone from 1740. The tower is built in four stages, featuring embattled parapets, gargoyles at the corners, and diagonal buttresses. Inside, there is a 15th-century octagonal font and several old bench ends. The chancel houses a 15th-century Dyve brass, while the aisle contains an alabaster monument from 1603 dedicated to the Dyve family, and at the west end, there is a Trevor monument from the mid-18th century.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Owen sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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