The Church of the Holy Spirit is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Church.

The Church of the Holy Spirit

WRENN ID
woven-stair-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Church
Address
The Church of the Holy Spirit, Icklesham
OS grid reference
TQ 937 191
Coordinates
50.93878, 0.75686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Spirit is a church built in 1848-1849, designed by architect S S Teulon, in the 14th-century Gothic style. It features a chancel and nave that are not divided, a porch at the southwest angle, and an octagonal turret for bells. The structure is made of stone rubble with buttresses and has a tiled roof. Inside, the chancel has a barrel vault, while the nave boasts a scissor-beam roof. The interior also includes several boards commemorating the 128 lives saved by six lifeboats between 1862 and 1928, as well as the loss of the Mary Stanford on November 15, 1928.

Local climate

The Church of the Holy Spirit receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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