Church of St Helen is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Helen

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Helen, Church Lane, Little Eversden
OS grid reference
TL 374 532
Coordinates
52.16076, 0.00858
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Helen is a parish church located in Little Eversden. It dates back to the 14th century, with the west tower and north porch added around 1400 or early in the 15th century. The church underwent restoration between 1891 and 1892. It is constructed from fieldstone and clunch rubble, with limestone dressings, and features slate roofs.

The layout includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and north porch. The west tower is three stages high, with a main cornice and diagonal buttressing. It has a restored west window with three cinquefoil lights, loop windows on either side of the second stage, and a bell-stage featuring two-centred arches and vertical tracery in a two-light opening. The gable of the earlier nave roof is visible in the east wall.

In the nave, there are two restored 14th-century windows in the south wall, and a south doorway that has been blocked. The chancel has rendered walls and an east window with three trefoil lights set in a two-centred arch, while the south wall windows are also restored. The north porch, dating from around 1400, is timber framed with some modern elements and sits on a rebuilt base of fieldstone. It has a slate roof, two bays, and a two-centred outer arch. The porch is open-sided and features foiled heads to seven lights, with a crown post roof supported by four-way bracing. The collar purlin is moulded, and there are braces to the collars. The inner archway is made of clunch and has a two-centred arch with keeled roll moulding and a label.

Inside, the church features a 17th-century roof of Queen strut construction with three bays. The wall posts have carved pendants, and there is a rood loft stair opening on the north side of the chancel arch. The choir stalls, which were reset from the chapel of Queens College, Cambridge, are designed by Bodley.

Local climate

Church of St Helen 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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