Church of St Faith is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1997. A 20th century Church.
Church of St Faith
- WRENN ID
- broken-plaster-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1997
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Faith, Victoria Square
- OS grid reference
- SU 561 008
- Coordinates
- 50.80479, -1.20385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an Anglican church, built in 1933 by Seely and Paget. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with stone dressings, and incorporates a reinforced-concrete transverse arch structure. The roof is covered in plain clay tiles with pedimented gable ends.
The church has a nave with north and south aisles, a chancel under a single roof, and an integrated outshut with flanking porches on the south side, containing a chapel and vestries. The exterior is in a Renaissance style. The east and west ends feature superimposed brick pilasters at the corners and centre. The east end rises to an arch with a pediment, with moulded stone strings breaking forward over the pilasters and continuing as gutters. The north and south sides have a mansard roof lowered to lower eaves, with four tall pedimented clerestory dormers containing round-arch multi-pane windows. The south side eaves are lower, flanked by pedimented porches with round arches and stone doorcases. Round-headed windows with metal frames and small panes are present. The west end has a relieving arch over a tall lancet window, with a stone doorframe and panelled door below. A brick bellcote with an open pediment sits on the west gable. A monopitch extension containing church rooms was added in the late 20th century on the north side.
The interior is whitewashed and features eight bays of reinforced-concrete trusses with tall catenary arches, flanked by smaller arches for the narrow passage aisles. Reinforced-concrete purlins are also present. A stone altar has a canopy and is flanked by tall recessed round-arched lancets. Original choir stalls, a pulpit, and a lectern remain, constructed of low whitewashed walls with cedar tops. Other furnishings designed by the architects include sedilia, an altar rail, a font, and a chapel altar.
Local climate
Church of St Faith receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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