Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Church.

Church of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
muffled-pediment-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Barnabas, High Street, Easterton
OS grid reference
SU 021 552
Coordinates
51.29677, -1.97114
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas is an Anglican parish church built in 1875. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring blue brick banding and yellow and red bricks around the window heads. The church has a tiled roof and includes a nave with a south-east porch, a chancel with a vestry, and a bellcote. There is a 20th-century parish room attached to the west end, which is not of special interest. The porch is gabled and has flush buttresses. The windows are simple lancets with stone sills and a flush blue brick string, and the eaves are cogged. At the west (south) end, there are three similar windows, with a window head in the gable and triple lancets in the chancel. The tall saddleback bellcote features a cross gable and a single bell opening, while the nave has two small gabled dormers on each side.

Inside, the church is unplastered and has an open timber-framed roof with five bays supported by hammerbeams and wall brackets. There are piers at the west end to support the bellcote. The floor walkways are tiled, and there is a simple chancel arch leading to the long chancel, which has a six-sided open timber roof. The vestry opens to the chancel through a wide low arch. The glass includes coloured margins, with the north chancel window made by Glasby in 1927. The fittings include a square limestone font on five columns, a part-octagon carved pulpit, and a wooden altar rail on scrolled stanchions. The church has furniture and an organ but no pews or monuments, aside from two war memorial brasses.

Local climate

Church of St Barnabas receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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