Church of the Holy Spirit is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Church.
Church of the Holy Spirit
- WRENN ID
- waning-keep-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Spirit, Buckland Monachorum
- OS grid reference
- SX 488 659
- Coordinates
- 50.47372, -4.13172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Spirit is a church built in 1878, located in Buckland Monachorum, Milton Combe. It features slate rubble walls with Bath stone dressings and a gable-ended slate roof with coping stones. There is a rubble and ashlar lateral stack serving the vestry. The church consists of a nave and chancel, with a vestry to the north and an entrance porch at the west gable end. The nave windows are two-light with pointed cusped heads and a continuous hood-mould that has foliage carved stops. The chancel has pointed lancet windows, and the east window is three-light with a hood-mould featuring carved headstops. The lean-to porch at the west gable end has a pointed arched doorway on the south side. A gabled stone belfry is located at the west gable end, and there is a projecting gabled vestry to the north of the chancel. Inside, the double chamfered chancel arch is supported by foliage carved corbels. The arch-braced nave roof has its main trusses resting on corbels and intermediate trusses, and there are carved bench ends.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Spirit sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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