Church of St Francis is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Francis

WRENN ID
twelfth-oriel-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Francis, Littleton Lane, Artington, GU3 1HW
OS grid reference
SU 982 474
Coordinates
51.21822, -0.59517
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Francis is a church dated 1843, located in Artington, Surrey. It is constructed from coursed sandstone with grey brick dressings, featuring an irregular heathstone tower with stone dressings and some galletting around the south door. The roof is plain tiled, with some patterned sections, and includes a wood-framed and shingled dormer and spire. The church has a nave with a pentice roof to the south, a south porch, and a short square tower at the southeast corner. The tower is supported by angle buttresses and has a roundel on the south side. There are lancet windows under label mouldings, with two on the south side and a three-light, leaded and bargeboarded casement dormer above. The east window is a three-light design with cusped tracery, while the west window is a large four-light mullioned and transomed window under a label moulding. The gabled south porch features a Tudor-style arched entrance.

Inside, the nave and chancel are accompanied by a lobby at the west end. The lobby has three bays with a panelled screen beneath half-wheel glazing that separates it from the nave. The nave consists of three bays and has a stone depressed chancel arch. There are 20th-century fittings present. A small Pieta carving, possibly Flemish, can also be found inside. The building was formerly a school before being converted into a church. It is included for its group value with Long Meadow.

Local climate

Church of St Francis receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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