Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Redbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1981. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- odd-hammer-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Ilford North MP: Wes Streeting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, the Drive
- OS grid reference
- TQ 427 876
- Coordinates
- 51.57, 0.0577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew, built in 1924 and designed by Sir Herbert Baker, is a Grade II listed building located in Ilford. It features a high nave flanked by low narrow aisles and a five-sided eastern apse. The church is constructed of red brick and has a steeply pitched clay tile roof, with a fleche at the west end. On the north side, there is a low projecting chapel with a gabled roof and an apse, while the south side has a full-height projecting organ loft with a hipped roof. The west front includes a small apsidal baptistery projection topped with a copper half dome and a statue. The exterior is characterized by deep stepped buttresses, segmental arched windows with brick mullions, and a rose window at the west end, along with pointed arched windows in the east apse. Inside, the church is entirely brick, featuring a seven-bay round arched nave and an open timber roof, with a vaulted east apse.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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