Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Church.
Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- roaming-threshold-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green MP: Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Edmund, Larkswood Road, E4
- OS grid reference
- TQ 374 925
- Coordinates
- 51.61524, -0.01616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Edmund, located on Larkswood Road in Chingford, was built in 1938 by architect N Cachemaille-Day. It features a grey brick and knapped flint facade with a pitched tiled roof that has a parapet. The church has a nave with four bays and wide aisles, but no clerestory. It includes short transepts, a low square crossing tower, and a north porch. The design is in a simplified Perpendicular Gothic style, characterized by square-headed aisle windows with brick tracery and a Tudor arched five-light west window. The tower has corner buttresses that curve to merge with the main wall planes and a round stair tower at the southeast corner, which is louvred at the top.
Inside, the church is rendered, featuring pointed arcade arches without capitals, with hollow chamfer mouldings that rise through the piers to the apex. The piers support encased roof trusses, and there is a pitched encased ceiling. A gallery is present in the crossing tower. The pulpit, font, font cover, reredos, altar rails, and light fittings are also notable features of the interior.
Local climate
Church of St Edmund sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 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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