Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
knotted-courtyard-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merton
Constituency
Mitcham and Morden MP: Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Barnabas, Gorringe Park Avenue
OS grid reference
TQ 281 702
Coordinates
51.41658, -0.15786
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas is a church built in 1914, designed by architect H P Burke-Downing. It features brown brick with some stone dressings and has a steeply pitched red tiled roof that extends to the eaves. The church is designed in a simplified late Gothic style. It has a tall five-bay nave with the roof ridge running straight into the chancel, and it includes only a south aisle, as the north aisle was never constructed. There is no clerestory.

A narrow, slab-like bell tower rises over the east wall of the chancel, featuring paired openings and a saddleback roof, with a clock on the south face. The church has arched moulded entrances at the west, which is pointed, and at the south-west, which is round-headed, both lacking capitals. The south aisle has paired lancet windows between the buttresses. The east window consists of three lights, flanked by paired two-light windows with cusped 'Y' tracery. The west end features a pair of two-light 'Y' traceried windows separated by a stone statue of a saint, with powerful flanking buttresses supporting the projecting nave. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Church of St Barnabas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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