St Giles Vestry Rooms and Attached Wall with Lamp South West of Church is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Vestry rooms.
St Giles Vestry Rooms and Attached Wall with Lamp South West of Church
- WRENN ID
- tall-kitchen-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras MP: Sagal Abdi-Wali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Vestry rooms
- Address
- St Giles Vestry Rooms and Attached Wall with Lamp South West of Church, St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 299 812
- Coordinates
- 51.51512, -0.12862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The St Giles Vestry Rooms, built between 1731 and 1733 by Henry Flitcroft, are located south-west of the Church of St Giles. The building is a single-storey structure made of multi-coloured stock brick with a slate roof, featuring a four-bay east facade. It has gauged red brick flat arches above the flush sash windows and a parapet. The right side of the building is constructed from yellow stock brick and also has gauged red brick flat arches above two sash windows. There is a single-storey corridor made of stone, which includes pilaster mullions for two glazed bays and double part-glazed doors on the right, topped with a cornice. Inside, the Vestry Room retains good original panelling and features. Additionally, there is an attached low stone wall with a column standard gas lamp that has a Windsor lantern.
Local climate
St Giles Vestry Rooms and Attached Wall with Lamp South West of Church 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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