Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Church.
Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- white-threshold-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Edmund, West Road, West Caister
- OS grid reference
- TG 508 117
- Coordinates
- 52.64528, 1.70719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Edmund is a parish church built in 1854. It features a flint south facade, with gault brick on the sides and a red brick rear elevation. The front has a slate roof, while the rear is covered with concrete tiles. A central gabled south porch includes an ashlar arched doorway, with a punched encircled trefoil in the gable head. The church has one-light timber round-headed side windows with leaded lights, and there are two 2-light Y windows on either side of the porch, also under rounded heads and with leaded lights. The roof is gabled, and there is a similar east window. On the north side, there are two 4-light timber casements with leaded lights. Inside, the church features a boarded scissor braced roof and a drum font with a square bowl.
Local climate
Church of St Edmund receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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