Old Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1960. Church.
Old Church of St Helen
- WRENN ID
- tattered-flint-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Old Church of St Helen, Church Road, Alveston
- OS grid reference
- ST 631 865
- Coordinates
- 51.57628, -2.53253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Church of St Helen, located on Church Road in Rudgeway, is a Grade II listed building featuring a tower and a section of the north wall of the nave. The tower dates from around 1400, while the wall is from the 12th century. The structure is built of rubble with limestone and sandstone freestone dressings.
The Perpendicular style tower is three stages high, constructed in rubble with limestone open chequers. It has a four-centred arched door with a stone surround and drip mould, and above this is a three-light window with intersecting tracery, a hood mould with stops, and a relieving arch. The upper stages include slit windows and two-light windows. The east side of the tower features a high pointed arch leading to the nave, along with weathered diagonal buttresses and string courses.
The north wall includes a plain, round-headed blocked door with diaper moulding and carved imposts, as well as a two-light window with a pointed arch and trefoil heads. The wall is accented with stone quoins and shows remains of a coped gable end and kneeler. Inside, some beams remain at the upper stages of the tower.
Local climate
Old 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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