Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
brooding-tracery-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pendle
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Manchester Road, Nelson, BB9 7AQ
OS grid reference
SD 856 375
Coordinates
53.83442, -2.22018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a church built in 1879, with an addition of a west bay and tower completed between 1905 and 1908. Designed by Waddington & Dunkerley, the church is constructed of ashlar stone and features slate roofs. It has a nave with lean-to aisles, a chancel, and a west tower topped with a spire. The nave and aisles consist of six bays, with the aisles featuring two-light plate-traceried windows and the clerestory displaying alternating groups of two and three lancet windows. There is a gabled, buttressed porch at the first bay on the south side. The chancel is slightly lower than the nave and has two-light windows set in colonnaded arches, along with a steeply pointed east window containing four lights and quatrefoils in the head. A small three-light window is located in the gable apex, and an organ loft projects from the south side of the chancel under a cross-roof. The church has low, steeply offset buttresses on all sides. The west tower is tall and severe, consisting of three stages with angle buttresses that transition into canted pinnacles, which recede into the minor faces of the octagonal spire. The cardinal faces of the spire feature tall lucarnes. The west window has three lights with cusping, and the arcaded belfry stages include tall single louvres. The interior has not been inspected. At the time of listing, the church was still in use but had been converted into a training centre for teaching traditional building skills in 2012.

Local climate

Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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