Church of St Alban is a Grade II listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1981. Church.
Church of St Alban
- WRENN ID
- solemn-trefoil-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harrow
- Constituency
- Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Alban, the Ridgeway
- OS grid reference
- TQ 132 883
- Coordinates
- 51.58281, -0.36694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Alban, built in 1936 by A W Kenyon, is located in North Harrow. It is constructed of yellow brick and features a square tower at the southeast corner topped with a copper roof. The church is designed in a free early Christian style, characterized by tall lancet windows with horseshoe heads and clerestory windows shaped like elongated hexagons. The bell stage includes six semi-circular openings on each face. Inside, the church has a simple design with a tunnel vault and narrow aisles.
Local climate
Church of St Alban 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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