Parish Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. A Victorian Church.
Parish Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- ragged-parapet-ash
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Parish Church of St Andrew, East Lulworth
- OS grid reference
- SY 853 820
- Coordinates
- 50.63821, -2.20816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located in Lulworth Park. The tower dates from the late 15th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1864 by architect John Hicks. The church features rubble stone walls and tiled roofs with parapets at the gables. It consists of a nave, chancel, south porch, and west tower.
The tower has four stages, with battlemented parapets and corner pinnacles. There is a corbel table below the parapet, and angle buttresses with pinnacles that rise to the base of the belfry. The belfry has tall, narrow traceried windows, with large stone corbels positioned between them. The lowest stage of the tower contains two-light windows. The body of the church is designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring two-light traceried windows in both the nave and chancel.
Inside, the tower arch is of a depressed four-centred form, with canopied niches on either side. The font, dating from the 15th century, is octagonal with panelled sides. In the chancel, there is a carved Royal Arms from the 18th century, along with a hatchment on the south wall. Other fittings date from the 19th century. The churchyard contains several 18th-century headstones, some of which display fine lettering. The tower is noted for its architectural quality.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Andrew receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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