Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- drifting-minaret-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Woolaston
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 993
- Coordinates
- 51.69131, -2.59923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church with foundations dating back to the 12th century, though it has been largely restored and extended in the 19th century. The building is constructed of sandstone and features a concrete tiled roof with coped gables. The original 12th-century cruciform plan has been altered, and the church now consists of a nave, a south porch, a two-gabled south aisle, a chancel, a vestry, and a north tower, which may be located on the site of the former north transept.
The windows throughout the church are generally designed in a 14th-century style. The three-stage tower has chamfered offsets, a crenellated parapet, a low pyramidal roof, and a weathervane, along with two deep buttresses on the north side of the nave. The outer and inner doorways of the porch are heavily restored Norman, and the door features fine decorative 19th-century strap hinges. At the west end of the nave, there is a three-light window dating from around 1300.
Inside, the nave has a barrel roof, and there is a two-bay south aisle added in 1829, with the easternmost bay on the site of the former south transept. The chancel arch is supported by paired granite columns with foliated capitals, and the chancel roof features two heavy cusped king post trusses. The church contains pitch pine pews, an octagonal 16th-century font on a Victorian base, an 18th-century pulpit from Claycoton, Northamptonshire, and a screen from the Church of the Venerable Bede. It houses one medieval bell, two from the 17th century, and two from the 18th century. The church was granted to Tintern Abbey in 1131 and underwent major restoration by Henry Morgan of Tidenham in 1859. It is set within a roughly circular churchyard, indicating a very early site development.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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