Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Church.

Church of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
frozen-pediment-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1970
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Barnabas, Cricklade Road, Central Swindon North
OS grid reference
SU 155 859
Coordinates
51.5724, -1.77752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas is an Anglican parish church built in 1885 by J.P. Seddon. It is constructed from rock-faced snecked Swindon stone, with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The church features a lead-covered stair tower and a sanctus bellcote. It has a nave and aisles, along with a short chancel that includes side chambers. There is a south-west porch beneath the lower two storeys of an incomplete tower, and an opposite north-west porch. The exterior showcases paired lancets set between ashlar-dressed pilasters, with clerestory lancets that continue as a blind arcade along the chancel. The east end of the chancel has triple lancets beneath a continuous hood, and the porch features an Early English style doorway. The west end has four lancets.

Inside, the church has an arcade of five bays, with an additional bay leading into the chancel and a half-bay at the west. The moulded arches rest on quatrefoil columns. The clerestory is supported by alternating columns and clusters on a wall string, which holds up a coved hammerbeam boarded vault. The chancel contains canvas-based wall paintings created between 1946 and 1948 by Rev. John Perret, as well as a trefoiled sedilia, piscina, and a priest's door. An octagonal limestone pulpit is supported by grey stone columns with an arcade. The font at the west end of the nave features a dog-toothed bowl surrounded by a trefoiled arcade. The aisles include west end lancets with stained glass by Morris & Co. from around 1918.

Local climate

Church of St Barnabas receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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