Church of the Holy Spirit and St Edward is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Church.
Church of the Holy Spirit and St Edward
- WRENN ID
- standing-mullion-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Spirit and St Edward, Victoria Avenue, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 029 790
- Coordinates
- 50.61155, -1.95945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Spirit and St Edward is a Roman Catholic church built in 1904, designed by Canon A Scoles. It features walls made of Purbeck Stone and a modern tiled roof. The church is laid out with a nave, chancel, and a west (liturgical south) transept, topped by an open bell-cote over the crossing. It is constructed in a "Decorated" Gothic style. The north wall, referred to as the "west" wall, has a central arched doorway with a sculptured tympanum above it, along with a large traceried window. The nave is adorned with two-light traceried windows. Inside, the walls are plastered, and the nave and chancel have canted plaster ceilings, with the nave ceiling featuring wood ribs. There are paintings from around 1926 behind the high altar and the chapel altar in the transept, with the one behind the high altar depicting Saint Edward of Corfe Castle. Additionally, there are Purbeck Stone boundary walls along Victoria Avenue and Rempstone Road, topped with "rustic" capping and modern iron gates.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Spirit and St Edward receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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