Church of the Holy Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of the Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- errant-eave-marsh
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of the Holy Cross, Church Lane, Durley
- OS grid reference
- SU 505 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95004, -1.28186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Cross is a parish church primarily dating from around 1300, with 14th-century transepts. It underwent restorations in 1879 and 1884 by Colson, during which the walls were roughcast and dormers were added. The church features roughcast walls with various buttresses and simple Gothic windows from the restoration period. It has a tile roof, gabled dormers on the nave, and a west end bell turret with boarded walls and a broach spire. The structure includes an aisleless nave and chancel, along with north and south transepts, a Victorian vestry, and a south porch positioned at the angle with the transept.
Inside, the church is plain and contains mainly Victorian fittings. Notable features include a pulpit with a tester from 1630, a Norman font supported by pillars, and a fragment of 14th-century wall painting depicting a ship. The interior also showcases a continuous line of roof timbers crossing the transepts on coupled wall plates, as well as the massive timber frame of the bell turret at the west end of the nave. There is one wall monument dated 1757.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Cross receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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