Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1966. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- scattered-chapel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 905 981
- Coordinates
- 53.4799, -2.14326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed church built between 1846 and 1847 by E.H. Shellard for the Church Commissioners. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a slate roof. The church is designed in the Gothic revival style and includes a nave, clerestory, aisles, and chancel. The structure has a six-bay nave and aisles, along with a three-bay chancel that has a projecting plinth and continuous hoodmoulds. Each bay is supported by weathered buttresses and contains paired lancet windows, while the clerestory features spherical triangle windows. The baptistry, which serves as a south porch, projects from the second bay, and there is a priest's door leading to the chancel. The gables are coped with kneelers, and there is a west bellcote. The east window consists of three lancets.
Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by quatrefoil columns with stiff-leaf capitals. The hammer-beam roof springs from shafts with head stops. There is a west gallery and an organ loft that is elaborately painted. The interior fittings, made of timber and stone, include pews and a font.
Local climate
Church of St Mary 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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