Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2000. Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
eternal-grate-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southampton
Constituency
Southampton Test MP: Satvir Kaur (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 2000
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Andrew, United Reform Church, the Avenue, City of Southampton
OS grid reference
SU 419 136
Coordinates
50.92118, -1.4043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a Congregational church built between 1897 and 1898 by architects Cubitt and Collinson. It is constructed of red brick with Bath stone dressings and has clay plain tile roofs. The church features a wide nave, low north and south aisles, a west tower, and a narthex, with a vestry located to the southeast. It is designed in the Perpendicular/Tudor style.

The exterior showcases a west end gable that includes a tripartite window with ogee hoodmoulds and shafts between, topped with crocketed pinnacles. Below this is a moulded three-centred arch west doorway, flanked by brick buttresses with set-offs. The tower, which is set back over the west end, has a rectangular plan with angle and diagonal buttresses, and features three and two-light bell-openings. It is topped with a corbelled embattled parapet, small stone pinnacles, and a polygonal stair turret with an open timber canopy above, culminating in a squat tiled spire with a lead-clad finial and a wrought-iron cross. The north and south aisles are adorned with three-light windows between buttresses, while the clerestorey above has two-light windows with four-centred arches.

Inside, the church has plastered walls and red brick arches. The wide nave is supported by an arch-braced timber roof on balusters set on stone corbels. It features three-bay arcades, where the mouldings of the four-centred arches die into circular stone piers. The clerestorey above has brick rear arches and curved braces to the beams over the aisles. There is a moulded four-centred chancel arch leading to a polygonal apse with two-light stained glass windows; the altar has been removed and an organ is positioned at the side. A tall two-centred tower arch with a gallery below completes the interior, which also contains 19th-century benches.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew 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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