Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fallow-span-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Lane, Mellor
- OS grid reference
- SD 651 308
- Coordinates
- 53.77294, -2.53072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary, built between 1825 and 1827 by architect Rickman, is a church constructed from squared sandstone with a slate roof. The building features a west tower, a nave with a clearstorey, a continuous chancel, and north and south aisles. All openings are chamfered lancets with hoods. The three-stage tower includes angle buttresses and a stone needle spire that is set back behind a parapet. The spire has openings under gablets on all four sides. The tower's bell openings and the windows of the second stage each consist of one light. Above the west doorway is a quatrefoil set within a circular surround. On either side of the lowest stage, there are projections with parapets, diagonal buttresses, and single-light windows facing west. Lower square-plan projections are located at the angles between these projections and the aisle walls. Each aisle contains six bays of paired lancets separated by buttresses with offsets, and the clearstorey windows are also paired. At the east end, beyond the aisles, there is a bay with a single light for the chancel, along with a single-storey projection at the angle between the east aisle walls and the chancel. The east window features five stepped lancet lights.
Inside, the church has five-bay arcades with moulded pointed arches and piers made up of four clustered columns. The nave and aisles are topped with ribbed plaster vaults. The front of the west gallery, which supports an organ, is decorated with carved tracery. There is no chancel arch; instead, the chancel is enclosed by a carved timber screen that includes a pulpit on the northern side.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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