Holy Innocents Church is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1995. Church.
Holy Innocents Church
- WRENN ID
- standing-quoin-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Holy Innocents Church, Church Lane, Southwater
- OS grid reference
- TQ 152 263
- Coordinates
- 51.02525, -0.35852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Innocents Church is a church built in 1848-1849, designed by architect W. Harrison, with a vestry added in 1909. It is constructed from Forest sandstone and Horsham stone rubble, featuring ashlar dressings, a tiled roof, and a wooden and shingled bellcote. The church is designed in the Decorated style and includes a nave, a north aisle, north and south transepts, and a south porch.
The nave has two traceried windows, one with double lights and the other with triple trefoliated lights. The gabled south porch features kneelers, a scissorbrace roof, and two stained glass lancet windows. The north aisle contains three double trefoliated windows, while the west window has two cinquefoil-headed lights with a quatrefoil above. The wooden bellcote at the west end has a trefoliated bell chamber with a latticed screen and a shingled spire topped with a metal windvane. The transepts are gabled, and the east window consists of three cinquefoil-headed lights with reticulated tracery.
Inside, there is a three-bay arcade supported by octagonal columns, and both the nave and north aisle have arch-braced roofs. The church features 19th-century pews and an organ from Worth Abbey, installed in 1880. The south and east walls are adorned with 19th-century stained glass, while the north aisle has six stained glass windows from 1986, created by Harold Thompson, depicting the history of Christ's Hospital.
Local climate
Holy Innocents Church receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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