Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1970. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- proud-glass-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1970
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Castle Road, WA7 2BE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 537 819
- Coordinates
- 53.33206, -2.69627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1851 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed of red sandstone and features a slate roof. The church has a lofty four-bay nave with a side aisle and a chancel roof that is at a lower level. A bell-turret is located on the east gable of the nave. The walls are made of squared snecked rubble and include angle buttresses on the chancel and corner buttresses on the nave. The main Gothic entrance is situated in the south aisle. The windows of the chancel and nave are curvilinear, while the clerestorey windows are trefoil-shaped, all featuring drip moulds with stops carved as faces. Each window contains stained glass. The octagonal bell-turret has trefoil openings topped with gablets, and there are gablet kneelers on the gables.
Inside, the church has Gothic aisle arcades supported by clusters of four shafts. The organ chamber and Memorial Chapel are located on either side of the chancel. Notable interior features include a fine alabaster reredos and oak chapel screens. The chancel has a boarded waggon roof, while the nave has a similar roof with exposed rafters, with trusses supported on corbels carved as faces. The oak benches in the church are designed with simple poppyheads.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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