St Anselm (House of Prayer) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1980. House of prayer.
St Anselm (House of Prayer)
- WRENN ID
- late-chapel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1980
- Type
- House of prayer
- Address
- St Anselm (House of Prayer), Britwell Road, Burnham
- OS grid reference
- SU 938 827
- Coordinates
- 51.5356, -0.64796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Anselm (House of Prayer) is a building that dates from the late 19th century but has a core from the 17th century. The south elevation features two storeys, with a lower storey made of red brick and a first floor that is roughcast and colourwashed, overhanging slightly. The roof is tiled and has two gables in the recessed central section. On the ground floor, there are two 3-light bay windows and a central door that has a wooden hood supported by brackets. The first floor features a sash window arrangement of 1:3:1 in each gable, and all windows have glazing bars. On the right-hand return, there is a 17th-century chimney against a slightly projecting gable.
Local climate
St Anselm (House of Prayer) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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