Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Church.

Church of St Mark

WRENN ID
lunar-slate-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stockport
Constituency
Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mark, Stockport Road East
OS grid reference
SJ 931 919
Coordinates
53.42415, -2.10497
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mark is a church built between 1847 and 1848 by Shellard for the Church Commissioners. It is constructed of dressed stone with ashlar and slate roofs. The church features a three-sided gallery plan, a small chancel, and a west tower flanked by entrance bays. The nave has five bays and aisles but lacks a clerestory. Architectural details include a projecting stone plinth, a sill band, an eaves band, a coped parapet, and coped gables with octagonal corner pinnacles. Each bay contains paired lancets with colonnettes and weathered gableted buttresses that are angled at the corners. There is a door in the first bay with a sundial above it.

The five-stage tower has set-back buttresses that transform into octagonal corner columns at the fifth stage, rising as ornate pinnacles. It features a clock in the third stage and two-light belfry openings with a clock and parapet above. The chancel has a three-light geometrical tracery east window and an adjoining lean-to vestry. Inside, the five-bay nave has quatrefoil columns with moulded capitals and bases, a three-sided gallery with blind arcading to the parapet, and an organ at the west end. The chancel arch is double-chamfered and supported by corbelled colonnettes, and the roof is a hammer-beam design. The chancel features an arch-braced roof truss, along with a carved timber reredos and pulpit.

Local climate

Church of St Mark sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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