Church of the Holy Ascension is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of the Holy Ascension
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-cornice-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Holy Ascension, Hyde
- OS grid reference
- SU 165 124
- Coordinates
- 50.91161, -1.76629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Ascension is a parish church built between 1854 and 1855 by H. Woodyer. It is constructed of red brick with blue chequerwork in English bond, featuring Caen and Chilmark stone dressings, and has a slate roof. The layout includes a chancel with a north vestry and organ chamber, along with a nave.
The east end of the chancel features a five-light window with Kentish tracery and setback buttresses. The vestry has a two-light east window, and the organ room is located to the north. To the south, there are one and two-light Geometrical windows. The nave includes a plinth and has, on both sides towards the east, a short two-light window and two two-light Geometrical windows. The northern windows are flanked by buttresses, while the southern windows have further east a gabled porch to the west. The porch features stone offsets and a two-order doorway with a cinquefoiled hood. The west side has setback buttresses and a wall with offsets on each side of the centre halfway up, along with a two-light window with a rose in the head above a large double bellcote.
Inside, the chancel arch is supported by a cluster of columns. The nave contains stained glass in both the east and west windows, and features a complex king-post roof. Most of the fittings are from the 20th century, except for the stone font with its cover.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Ascension receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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, 7 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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