Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Church.
Church of St Helen
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Helen, Gloucester Road, Alveston
- OS grid reference
- ST 633 874
- Coordinates
- 51.58505, -2.53028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Helen is a parish church built in 1885 by Henry Lloyd. It features rock-faced snecked rubble with stone dressings, plain tiled roofs with ridge coping, raised coped verges, kneelers, and cross finials. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry, all designed in the Decorated style.
The three-stage tower has a pointed arched door with a drip mould and relieving arch, along with a three-light window above it. There are two-light windows at the second and third stages, all featuring drip moulds and relieving arches, with bell louvres at the third stage. The south side of the tower has a clock at the second stage and a stair turret with slit windows, topped by a spire with a weathervane and a battlemented, pinnacled top, along with weathered string courses and buttresses.
The five-bay nave includes three windows on the north side and two on the south, all three-light. The three-bay chancel has a three-light east window and a two-light window to the south, with shaped corbels and weathered buttresses. The porch has a pointed arched door similar to that of the tower, while the vestry features a door in a plain chamfered surround and a lancet window.
Inside, the nave has an arch-brace and collar roof with shaped stone stops on the arch-braces. There is a tall pointed arch in a chamfered surround leading to the tower and a wider pointed arch in the same style leading to the chancel. The windows have splayed reveals, and the south door is in a segmental headed chamfered surround. The chancel roof is constructed similarly, with a pointed arched door to the vestry.
Notable interior features include a 19th-century stone pulpit in the Decorated style, which is six-sided with marble shafts at the base and clustered marble shafts at the edges, and a Norman bowl font with scalloped faces, which was removed from the old Church of St Helen. There are also early Victorian royal arms present.
Local climate
Church of St Helen 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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