Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Helen

WRENN ID
strange-loggia-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hastings
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 1951
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Helen, Elphinstone Road
OS grid reference
TQ 820 120
Coordinates
50.87965, 0.58654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Helen, located on Elphinstone Road, is a Grade II listed structure that features the ruins of the old Parish Church of Ore. The church includes a 12th-century tower at the west end, the north wall of the nave (the south nave wall has been lost), and the chancel. The chancel contains two 15th-century square-headed windows and an east wall with a gable that features a pointed 14th-century window with two trefoil-headed lights and a quatrefoil above.

Local climate

Church of St Helen receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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