Church of St. Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Church.
Church of St. Mary
- WRENN ID
- gilded-wall-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St. Mary, Park Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 002 040
- Coordinates
- 53.53305, -1.99791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a Grade II listed church built in 1875 by G. Shaw for the Buckleys of Holly Ville. It features rock-faced stone with a slate roof and is designed in the Gothic revival style. The church has a five-bay nave with a projecting plinth, where each bay is supported by weathered buttresses and contains a 2-light window. The easternmost bay on the south side is gabled and includes a rose window. There are gabled vestries and organ chambers on either side of the chancel, which has a 3-light east window and a 4-light west window with geometrical tracery. The coped gables are topped with cross finials. The three-stage tower has angled weathered buttresses, clock faces, and paired windows in the belfry stage, capped by a broach spire adorned with a dogtooth-enriched band. Inside, the church features arch-braced roof trusses and an enriched chancel arch, along with timber fittings, a stone font, and stained glass by F. Commere, J. Capronnier, and T. F. Curtis.
Local climate
Church of St. Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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