The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1985. Church.
The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart
- WRENN ID
- nether-frieze-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Angel Street, Petworth, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 979 216
- Coordinates
- 50.98609, -0.60648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart is a church built in 1896, designed by architect F A Walters. It features a 14th-century Gothic style and is constructed of stone with a slate roof. The church has a gabled porch at the west end of the south front and a projecting aisle of one storey to the east. To the south, there is a gabled transept that includes an octagonal turret and a tower topped with a thin spire. The east end of the church is apsidal.
Local climate
The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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