Church of St Agnes is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Church.
Church of St Agnes
- WRENN ID
- gilded-arch-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Agnes, Gate Lane, Freshwater
- OS grid reference
- SZ 342 860
- Coordinates
- 50.67308, -1.5173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Agnes is a Grade II listed church built in 1908 by the Isle of Wight architect I. Jones, who lived from 1840 to 1917. The church is constructed from stone rubble sourced from a demolished farmhouse, and the south transept features a quoin dated 1694. It has a timber-framed spirelet and a roof thatched with Norfolk reed. The layout includes a nave, an apsidal-ended chancel, a south transept, a south porch, and a west spirelet. The nave consists of three bays, featuring two double arched windows and one triple arched window. The south transept has a half-hipped roof and two mullioned windows. The south porch, dedicated to Lady Tennyson's mother, is gabled and includes timber-framing, pebbledashed infill, and a tiled roof. The apsidal-ended chancel has two bays with pointed arched windows. The west spirelet is square-shaped, featuring a timber-framed squat tower with wooden louvres and a pyramidal tiled roof. Inside, the church has a roof of angled queen strut type. There is a wooden chancel screen with a vine motif carved by the Rev. T.G. Devitt, and the altar table, communion rails, and pews are likely also crafted by him.
Local climate
Church of St Agnes receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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