Church of St Etheldreda is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Church.
Church of St Etheldreda
- WRENN ID
- inner-tallow-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Etheldreda, March Road, Elm
- OS grid reference
- TF 431 022
- Coordinates
- 52.59904, 0.11177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Etheldreda, built in 1876, is designed in the early English style. It features coursed rubblestone with a tiled roof. The west wall has a repaired bell-cote above a west window that contains two trefoil lights with a foiled head set in a two-centred arch. The nave consists of three bays, one of which includes a two-light window with a foiled head in a two-centred arch, while another bay has three trefoil lights with a foiled head in a two-centred arch. The south porch is gabled and has a two-centred outer arch that is moulded and supported by attached shafts. The chancel is tiled and has two windows with one trefoil light each in a two-centred head, along with an east window that features three trefoil lights with a foiled head. There is a north vestry that includes a stone stack.
Inside, the chancel arch is composed of two moulded orders, with the outer roll moulded on attached shafts that have foliate capitals and moulded bases. The inner arch is chamfered and supported by three grouped, attached colonettes with half octagonal capitals carried on corbels. In the south wall of the chancel, there is a piscina and double sedilia, both with cinquefoil cusping to their two-centred arches. The retable is made of stone, and there are two-centred arches across five bays, which are divided by marble shafts.
Local climate
Church of St Etheldreda 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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