Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1968. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- shifting-footing-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Sedgefield
- OS grid reference
- NZ 421 298
- Coordinates
- 54.66198, -1.34864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a redundant church that dates back to the medieval period but was largely rebuilt in 1860. It is constructed mainly of rubble, with mid-19th century dressed limestone quoins, window and door surrounds, and a Welsh slate roof. The church features a continuous, aisleless four-bay nave and chancel. The design reflects the Early English style, with lancet windows that have alternating jambs, chamfered reveals, and pointed hoodmoulds. The west end showcases tooled-and-margined quoins and paired lancets, along with a round-arched open stone bellcote on the west gable. The south wall includes a 19th-century boarded door in a moulded pointed arch under a hoodmould, along with three lancets to the east. The north wall has two lancets, and four blocked round arches were discovered during the 1860 reconstruction. The east end features a group of three stepped lancets, and the roof has slightly swept eaves. Inside, there is an octagonal stone font and five roof trusses with arch-braced collars.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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