Church of St Olaf is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Church.
Church of St Olaf
- WRENN ID
- seventh-stronghold-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Olaf, Wasdale, Copeland
- OS grid reference
- NY 188 086
- Coordinates
- 54.4671, -3.25353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Olaf is a parish church with the earliest reference dating back to around 1550, with records beginning in 1620. The building has undergone later additions and alterations. It features pebble-dashed rubble walls that are approximately 3 feet thick, set on a plinth. The roofs are made of graduated slate with overhanging eaves and stone copings, topped with a bellcote at the west end. The church is a single cell structure, with side walls about 5 feet high. There is a 20th-century plank door on the north side and 19th-century multi-light stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. Inside, there are four original roof trusses, one of which has a cut tie-beam located over the altar. The side walls are adorned with ornate 19th-century cast-iron lamp brackets. Additionally, there is a monolithic stone holy-water stoup, possibly the original font, set in a recess in the west wall. This stoup is approximately 2½ feet high, square in plan, and features stop-chamfered corners.
Local climate
Church of St Olaf sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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