Bell Tower, South East of Church of St Giles is a Grade I listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. A C13 Bell tower.
Bell Tower, South East of Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- salt-vestry-umber
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Bell tower
- Address
- Bell Tower, South East of Church of St Giles, Church Lane, Tydd St. Giles
- OS grid reference
- TF 427 164
- Coordinates
- 52.72687, 0.11217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bell tower, located south-east of the Church of St Giles, dates from the late 13th century, with the bell-stage added in the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed from Barnack limestone for the first two stages, while the bell-stage is made of red brick with stone quoins. The tower is embattled and consists of three stages, featuring a hipped roof, three-stage set-back buttressing, and a newel staircase located in the south-east corner. The open-sided ground stage has two sides that were blocked in the 17th century. Each side of the tower has a two-centred arch made up of three chamfered orders, supported by half-round columns with moulded capitals and bases. In each wall of the first stage, there is a now-blocked window with three pointed lights topped by a quatrefoil, set within a two-centred arch of two moulded orders, each supported by an attached shaft.
Local climate
Bell Tower, South East of Church of St Giles sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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