Church of St Mary and Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Church.
Church of St Mary and Presbytery
- WRENN ID
- far-pier-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary and Presbytery, Birchley Road, Billinge Chapel End
- OS grid reference
- SJ 524 995
- Coordinates
- 53.49088, -2.71771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary and Presbytery is a Catholic church and presbytery built in 1828, with a mid-19th century apse. It is constructed of stone and has a slate roof. The church features a three-bay nave with an impost band and cornice, and a pedimented west gable. The round-headed windows have keystones and leaded glazing, with rectangular panels above them. The west end includes windows flanking the entrance, which is accessed through a porch supported by paired unfluted Doric columns, and features a frieze and cornice. The gable displays a projecting panel with entwined initials. The rectangular apse has paired round-headed lancets and is attached to the presbytery, which is two storeys high and has three bays. The third bay features a gable and a ground-floor canted bay window with a hipped roof. The central entrance of the presbytery has a shallow gabled porch.
Inside, the church has a segmental vaulted ceiling and a small west gallery above the internal porch, which includes etched glazing. The round chancel arch is supported by paired columns with scrolly capitals. The canted apse contains large paintings, a niche to the right, and an altar to the left. The font, made of alabaster on coloured marble shafts, dates from 1877 and features panels with symbols of the evangelists.
Local climate
Church of St Mary and Presbytery 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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