Church of the Ascension is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1966. Church.
Church of the Ascension
- WRENN ID
- fallow-rafter-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Ascension, Burghclere
- OS grid reference
- SU 469 610
- Coordinates
- 51.34643, -1.32686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Ascension was built in 1838 and enlarged in 1875. It originally featured a plain wide nave with shallow transepts and a chancel, along with a western tower. The church was extended eastwards with the addition of a long chancel, a south aisle, and a north vestry. It has a slate roof. The older part of the church is constructed with square knapped flints and stone dressings, featuring lancet windows in the nave and coupled windows with hood-moulds in the transepts. The western tower has three stages, corner buttresses, and a western entrance door. Inside, the plain interior includes hammer-beam trusses with cusp-headed rails. The later additions are in a rich Perpendicular style, characterized by stepped buttresses, traceried windows, and rough flint walling with stone dressings. The interior features a chancel screen made of open traceried timber work above a stone dado wall, along with steps, stalls, a communion rail, sedilia, and a brass eagle lectern.
Local climate
Church of the Ascension receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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