Church of St Margaret and St Catherine is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. Church.
Church of St Margaret and St Catherine
- WRENN ID
- winter-lead-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret and St Catherine, Green Lane, Aldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 917 258
- Coordinates
- 51.89815, 0.7858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret and St Catherine was rebuilt on a new site in 1854 by Hakewill. It is designed in the early English style and is faced with coursed pebbles dressed with stone. The church features a nave, south aisles, chancel, a timber south porch, and a west tower topped with a tall stone parapet spire. The tower's parapet includes a string of ball-flower and angle buttresses. The south windows are lancets, while the chancel windows are in the perpendicular style. The roofs are gabled, peg-tiled, and consist of seven cants, which were re-used from the former medieval church. The south porch is a decorated feature, a fine specimen from the earlier church, along with a 14th-century door-leaf that has been reset in the south wall of the tower. This door has an ogee head and a sanctuary handle made of wrought iron.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret and St Catherine sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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