Church Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1960. A Medieval Church tower.
Church Tower
- WRENN ID
- empty-remnant-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1960
- Type
- Church tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Tower, the Street, Gretton
- OS grid reference
- SP 008 304
- Coordinates
- 51.97217, -1.98873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The church tower, which was formerly located at the west end of a church that has since been demolished, dates from the 15th or 16th century. It is constructed from large squared and dressed limestone blocks and features a pyramidal stone slate roof. The tower is two stories high and square in shape, with a moulded drip at half height on the southeast and west sides. On the west side, there is a 16th-century three-light hollow chamfered mullioned and transomed window with a four-centred head, while the east side has a simple chamfered opening supported by heavy respond caps. The upper stage includes slit windows on the north, west, and south sides. Diagonal buttresses are present on the southwest and northwest corners. This tower is all that remains of the church, which likely played a central role in the original development of Gretton as a village.
Local climate
Church Tower receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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