Church Of St Helen

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.