Church of St Edmund (Roman Catholic) is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1999. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Edmund (Roman Catholic)
- WRENN ID
- secret-plaster-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Test MP: Satvir Kaur (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1999
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Edmund (Roman Catholic), the Avenue, City of Southampton, SO17 1BG
- OS grid reference
- SU 420 130
- Coordinates
- 50.91499, -1.40313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Edmund is a Roman Catholic church built in 1889 by J W Lunn of Great Malvern. It is constructed of red brick in English bond with stone dressings and features double Roman clay tile roofs with stone coped gables. The church has a nave, five-bay north and south aisles, a transeptal lady chapel, and a sacristy. Although a tower on the south side and a transept on the north side were planned, they were not built.
The exterior showcases a large rose window with intricate Decorated tracery at the east (liturgical west) end, along with a canopied Crucifix above and a moulded pointed arch doorway below, flanked by large buttresses. The north and south aisles feature 2-light windows with reticulated tracery and a clerestory above with 3-light curvilinear tracery windows. There is a bellcote on the south side and a short gabled transept (Lady Chapel) on the north side with a 5-light window set in a large arch. The west (liturgical east) end has a small rose window in the gable of the chancel.
Inside, the church has plastered walls with stone arcades, a chancel arch, and rear arches. The five-bay north and south arcades have octagonal piers with moulded capitals and double-chamfered pointed arches. The tall narrow chancel/lady chapel arcade consists of two bays, and the large moulded chancel arch features corbelled shafts. The nave boasts a 10-bay arch-braced crown-post roof with three tiers of wind-braces, while the chancel has a 4-bay arch-braced roof.
Notable interior features include an ornate carved stone reredos with canopied niches, spires, and pinnacles; the sanctuary has been reordered with the altar brought forward. The lady chapel contains a carved stone Gothic reredos and an iron and brass Communion rail, along with a timber lady chapel/chancel screen. There are 19th-century benches and a 20th-century organ installed at the east (liturgical west) end.
Local climate
Church of St Edmund (Roman Catholic) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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