Gateway to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Gateway. 1 related planning application.
Gateway to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- floating-mortar-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary, Market Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 582 175
- Coordinates
- 53.65264, -2.63253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway to the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary, dated 1912, is constructed from sandstone. It features a wide, 4-centred arch set between buttressed piers. The arch has carved spandrels and is topped with a high stepped coping that includes a central niche with a statue of Our Lady of Dolours. On either side of this niche are blind traceried panels with Gothic lettering below the sills. The piers flanking the arch each have niches with open cinquefoil tracery in the heads, containing statues that carry the sacraments. The rear of the gateway is similar but only has the central niche, which holds a statue of a bishop.
Local climate
Gateway to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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