Church of St Saviours is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1989. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of St Saviours
- WRENN ID
- broken-flue-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1989
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Saviours, Arcadia Street, London, E14 6LF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 374 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51474, -0.02115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church of St Saviours is a church built in 1873-4 by Frederick J and Horace Francis. It is located on Arcadia Street, formerly Northumbria Street. The church is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick with red brick banding and alternate voussoirs to the arches. Portland stone is used for the windows, bellcote, copings, and offsets to the buttresses, with gabled slate roofs.
The church comprises a chancel with a south chapel, an aisled nave, and a western narthex. It is designed in the Middle Pointed style. The chancel features a five-light east window with trefoiled lights, cusped circles in the tracery, and a double-gabled roof over the north vestry. The vestry has hoodmoulds over two-light windows and a pointed-arched doorway. The south chapel has offset buttresses and hoodmoulds over a four-light east window, two-light south windows, a pointed-arched west doorway, and a round west window with circular tracery. The nave has a bellcote with a stone spirelet and five-bay lean-tos to the aisles, featuring offset buttresses and hoodmoulds over three-light windows, and quatrefoil clerestory windows. There is a five-light west window with reticulated tracery above the lean-to narthex, which has linked hoodmoulds over lancet windows and pointed-arched south and north doorways.
The interior features polychromatic brickwork. The chancel has two-bay north and south arcades with pointed, chamfered arches set on circular piers, which possess richly-carved foliate capitals and carved foliate corbels supporting a pointed-arched braced roof. A hoodmould with head corbels is above the tall chancel arch, also with richly-carved foliate capitals to engaged shafts. The nave has five-bay arcades with hoodmoulds and carved stops over chamfered pointed arches, again set on circular piers with moulded capitals. A similar pointed-arched roof is supported by carved corbels. A stained glass east window, dating from circa 1880 and by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, is present.
The church is a good example of a town church design, demonstrating a separation of elements in the Puginian tradition.
Local climate
Church of St Saviours 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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