Parish Church of St Andrew (Church of England) is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A Victorian Church.

Parish Church of St Andrew (Church of England)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Parish Church of St Andrew (Church of England), Cappell Lane, Stanstead Abbots
OS grid reference
TL 386 121
Coordinates
51.79084, 0.00942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Andrew, a Church of England building, was constructed in 1881 by architect Alfred Waterhouse for T F Buxton of Easneye and became the parish church in 1882. The church is built with uncoursed knapped flint, white stone dressings, and features red tiled gabled roofs. Inside, it is finished in red brick. The church has a cruciform plan, highlighted by a large square southwest tower that also serves as the porch. It includes angle buttresses and gable parapets adorned with crosses, and is designed in the Perpendicular style. The layout comprises a chancel, a three-bay nave with a hammer beam roof, transepts, a northeast vestry, a southwestern porch, and a three-stage embattled tower that houses a clock and four bells, which were donated in 1905. The seating capacity is designed for 375 people, as noted in Kelly's directory from 1914. Additionally, there is a semi-octagonal stair projection on the west side of the tower.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Andrew (Church of England) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% 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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