Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mark
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Mark, Victoria Street, WN2 4XL
- OS grid reference
- SD 566 047
- Coordinates
- 53.53736, -2.6556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mark is a church built between 1891 and 1892 by the architects Heaton and Ralph of Wigan. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and features slate roofs, designed in an Early English style with some Arts-and-Crafts motifs.
The church has a plan that includes a nave with north and south aisles, a south porch, a south transept, a south-east tower, and a chancel with a north vestry. The four-bay nave is accentuated by pilasters and has pairs of cusped lancets in the clerestory. A prominent feature is the large five-light west window, which includes cusped lights and multifoil tracery. The low lean-to aisles are adorned with mullioned windows that have two and three round-headed lights. The south aisle features a gabled porch at the first bay, which has a moulded segmental-pointed arched doorway and ridged gable coping topped with an apex cross. Additionally, there is a short transept at the fourth bay with two cusped lancets and a rose window that has circular trefoil tracery.
The squat three-stage tower includes a polygonal south-east stair-turret leading up to the second stage, with one-light cusped windows on the first and second stages, pairs of cusped lancet belfry windows, and an embattled parapet. The two-bay chancel features two-centred arched two-light windows on the south side and a large two-centred arched five-light east window with tracery. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church of St Mark sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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