Roman Catholic Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Church. 1 related planning application.
Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- former-gutter-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of St Mary, Buttermarket Street, WA1 2NN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 609 882
- Coordinates
- 53.38974, -2.58885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of St Mary, built in 1877 by Pugin and Pugin, is noted as one of their best works according to Pevsner. The church features a stone construction in the Decorated style. It has a six-bay nave supported by round columns with foliage capitals and pointed arches, which are adorned with angels and busts in roundels at the springing level. The clerestory windows are segmental-headed, and the aisle windows are three-light pointed arches with early Perpendicular style tracery.
The chancel is short and includes an elaborate Gothic reredos that occupies most of the east wall, with a rose window above it. The ceiling is panelled and punctuated by round arches. Inside, there are pews with iron traceried supports, inset stations of the cross in the north and south walls, and inset confessional boxes in the north wall. The church also features short transepts, marble altar rails, and a pulpit. Notably, there is a very tall and slender south-west tower, while the top part of the tower was added by Peter Paul Pugin in 1906.
The church forms a group with the Cross Keys Public House, Nos 80 to 84 (even), the Trustee Savings Bank, and No 95, alongside buildings dated 1817 and Nos 2 to 6 (even) on Dial Street.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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