Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- hushed-garret-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Winterborne Houghton
- OS grid reference
- ST 820 043
- Coordinates
- 50.83882, -2.25658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a parish church built in 1861 by T H Wyatt. It features a combination of flint with random rubble, banded brick and flint, and some rendered areas, topped with tiled roofs. The layout includes a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north aisle, and a vestry. The north arcade has been blocked off to create a parish room in the former aisle. The embattled two-stage tower has a pointed west window with three lights and Perpendicular tracery, above which are twin lancets. The belfry contains two-light square-headed Perpendicular windows with returned labels. The remaining windows, dating from the 19th century, feature Perpendicular tracery and come in various forms with square, pointed, or segmental-pointed heads, and consist of one, two, or three lights. The south porch is gabled and has a plank door with wrought-iron strap hinges.
Inside, there is a three-bay, blocked, stilted, segmental pointed arcade supported by octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. The pointed chancel arch consists of two hollow chamfered orders, with the innermost order dying into the responds. The tower arch also features two chamfered orders that die into the responds. The nave boasts a hammer beam roof with arch-braced collars, king-posts, and struts, while the chancel has a wagon roof. A 15th-century font with an octagonal bowl is adorned with quatrefoil panels that enclose leaf carvings, all set on an octagonal stem. Most other fittings in the church are from the 19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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