Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Church.
Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church
- WRENN ID
- dusk-chalk-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church, Cresswell Park, SE3 9RD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 397 759
- Coordinates
- 51.46502, 0.01073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Our Lady Help of Christians Roman Catholic Church, located in Cresswell Park, was built in 1891 by architect A E Purdie. The church features a nave, aisles, and an apsidal chancel, with a north aisle extension serving as a chapel and a south aisle extension functioning as an organ chamber. Designed in the Early English style, it includes stiff-leaf capitals and corbels on the chancel arch. The church has a four-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, along with an elaborate carved reredos and marble columns at the altar. The roof is supported by scissor trusses, and there is a small octagonal baptistery at the southwest corner. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble masonry with freestone dressings, topped by a high-pitched, slated roof. Diagonal buttresses are positioned at the corners, with stepped buttresses at the junctions of the aisles and chapels. A bell turret is located at the northwest corner of the nave. The listed buildings in Cresswell Park form a group.
Local climate
Our Lady Help of Christians RC 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 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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