Church of Our Lady and St Edward is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Church.
Church of Our Lady and St Edward
- WRENN ID
- upper-wall-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Our Lady and St Edward, Empress Road, Lyndhurst
- OS grid reference
- SU 300 083
- Coordinates
- 50.87391, -1.57462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Our Lady and St Edward is a Roman Catholic church built in 1896 by Sir Arthur Blomfield for M Edouard Souberbielle. It is constructed from squared rough-faced Purbeck stone with Chilmark dressings and features a plain tile roof. The church has a plan consisting of a nave and chancel combined, with a separate east Lady Chapel dedicated to the endower's wife, a north-west porch and tower, and a west lean-to attached to the nave, all designed in the Decorated style.
The east projection has a gabled roof with a pointed east door and wrought-iron gates, above which is a pointed three-light east window. The sides of the church have buttresses between the bays, with the east bay featuring paired two-light pointed windows that have cinquefoils in their heads. A buttress on the west side is topped with a statue under a canopy, while the other bays contain three pointed lancets. A moulded sill string runs along the building.
The porch has a pointed door and buttresses that are topped with gablets at each end of the gable. Behind the gable, there is an octagonal turret with a canopied niche or pointed lancet, followed by a bell stage that has pointed louvred openings on each face and a shingled spire. To the west, there is a pointed arch with five stepped lancets beneath it, and below that is the lean-to with lancets and a parapet, featuring walls at each end of the roof and buttresses.
Inside, the chancel has Purbeck shafts supporting the rear arches, and the reredos includes a fresco by Paul Natter.
Local climate
Church of Our Lady and St Edward receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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