Tower and Spire of Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Church tower. 3 related planning applications.
Tower and Spire of Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- unlit-transept-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church tower
- Address
- Tower and Spire of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate W2, City of Westminster, W2 3NP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 263 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51205, -0.18034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower and spire of Christ Church, dating to 1855 and designed by Messrs F and H Francis, are constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings. The tower is in the Geometrical/Decorated Gothic style and is square with a plain design, featuring three main stages. The third stage has paired bell louvres, corner buttresses, and a recessed spire set within an openwork parapet, linked to corner pinnacles by openwork flying buttresses. Three stages of lucarnes are presented to alternate faces. The tower is listed for group value only, with a later 20th-century residential development attached to the north and east not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Tower and Spire of Christ Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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