Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Church.
Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- bitter-banister-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Edmund, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 704 492
- Coordinates
- 51.24182, -2.42468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Edmund is a church built in 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey. It is constructed from coursed and squared Doulting rubble and features tile roofs with copings and cruciform finials. The church has a buttressed nave and chancel, each with two bays, a south porch, and a north vestry, all designed in the Decorated style. The nave has openings with two lights, each featuring tracery in slightly different styles. The chancel includes two-light windows, a lancet, and a three-light east window with reticulated tracery.
Inside, the church has a plain interior with tile floors. The nave is topped with a hammerbeam roof that springs from foliated corbels. The inner arches of the windows have foiled heads. There is an octagonal font with an ogee-headed niche on each face, along with a wooden cover featuring medieval-style ironwork, and a stone pulpit with crocketed niches. The chancel arch consists of two orders, and the chancel has an arch-braced roof that springs from foliated shafts. The reredos features seven carved stone panels and there are two Jacobean choir readers. All stained glass is designed in the 13th-century style.
Local climate
Church of St Edmund receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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