Church of St Barnabas is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Barnabas
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Barnabas, St Barnabas Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1W 8PF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 784
- Coordinates
- 51.49039, -0.15175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Barnabas is a Grade I listed church located on St Barnabas Street in the City of Westminster. It was built between 1847 and 1850 by Cundy Junior, with assistance from Butterfield. The church features ragstone ashlar dressings and a slate pitched roof that extends to the eaves. It is designed in the Early English Gothic style, comprising a five-bay nave with lean-to aisles, a clerestory, and a lower chancel. There are entrances on the west and south sides, and a five-stage tower at the northwest corner topped with a broach spire and dripping eaves. The tower includes triple bell louvres and one lucarne on each face. Inside, the church reportedly contains a rood and rood screen created by Bodley and Garner, Comper decoration in the Lady Chapel from around 1900, and stained glass. The church is part of a unified composition that includes a parsonage and school.
Local climate
Church of St Barnabas 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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