Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Organ blowing chamber.
Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- slow-span-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- Organ blowing chamber
- Address
- Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard, West St Helen Street, Abingdon on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 496 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66731, -1.28289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Organ Blowing Chamber, built in 1927, is located in St Helen's churchyard. It is a square, single-storey building constructed from red and blue chequered brick, featuring a hipped tile roof. The building has a wood dentil eaves cornice and red brick panelled quoins. A red brick plinth supports the structure, and there is an arched doorway framed by a red brick architrave. On the west face, there is one round arched window with leaded glazing and a tiled cill. This building forms a stylistic composition with the nearby almshouses.
Local climate
Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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