Abbey Church of St Benedict is a Grade II listed building in the Ealing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1981. Church.
Abbey Church of St Benedict
- WRENN ID
- late-fireplace-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ealing
- Constituency
- Ealing Central and Acton MP: Dr Rupa Huq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Abbey Church of St Benedict, Charlbury Grove, W5
- OS grid reference
- TQ 174 814
- Coordinates
- 51.5198, -0.30891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Abbey Church of St Benedict, located in Ealing, was built in 1897 by architects Frederick and Edward Walters and later extended by Stanley Kerr Bate after bombing, with the extension consecrated in 1962. This church is designed in the Perpendicular style and features a nine-bay nave with transepts and a choir located below the crossing. It has a single-storey aisled layout constructed from coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. The nave arcade is supported by compound piers, and there is a west gallery. The aisle windows are four-light and are flanked by stepped buttresses topped with a crenellated parapet. The roof is tiled. The west front includes three arched entrances beneath a large west window that has a 2:5:2 light arrangement, flanked by octagonal buttresses adorned with battlements and spirelets. A chequered gable features a Celtic cross finial. The post-war extension matches the original style of the church.
Local climate
Abbey Church of St Benedict 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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