Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. A C19 Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- grey-shingle-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Cross Bank Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 237 245
- Coordinates
- 53.71711, -1.64207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Gothic Revival church built in 1870, constructed from dressed stone and featuring a pitched slate roof. The church has a 4-bay buttressed nave with a porch on the right and an apsidal baptistry on the left, along with transepts. The nave windows are 2-light with stained glass and cusped heads, each topped with a single quatrefoil. Each bay includes a relieving arch, and the front of the church is apsidal. The rear elevation facing the road has a central triple group of very tall lights with a sexfoil in the head, flanked by 2-light windows with quatrefoils. The central doorway features a pointed arch with a cambered head.
Inside, the church has a plain but colorful interior. The apsidal chancel is designed as a blind arcade filled with mosaic, above which are nine paired 2-light stained glass clerestory windows. The chancel arch is adorned with two carved figures. There are chapels on the left and right, separated by a two-bay arcade. A later gallery is located at the rear, below which is a glass screen forming a vestibule. The roof features arched braced hammer beams.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% 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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