Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- solitary-storey-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Spen Lane, BD19 4LS
- OS grid reference
- SE 206 259
- Coordinates
- 53.72922, -1.68873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Gothic Revival church built between 1850 and 1851 by John Dobson of Leeds. It features hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. The church has a northwest tower, a four-bay nave with lean-to buttressed aisles, and no clerestory. There is a two-bay chancel, a south transept, and a south porch. The aisle windows are three-light with curvilinear tracery. The east window has five lights, while the west window has four lights, both featuring curvilinear tracery and four quatrefoils in the head. The three-tier west tower has diagonal buttressing and a round clock face on three sides. The bell chamber includes large three-light louvred and traceried openings, and the tower is topped with an openwork parapet and tall crocketted pinnacles supported by corbel brackets with figure heads and beasts, along with gargoyles.
Inside, there is a six-bay arcade of double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The chancel arch is moulded and rests on clustered piers with capitals carved into angel figures. The carved stone reredos features crocketted heads and pinnacles with crests, and there is also a carved stone font. The roof is supported by arched braced trusses.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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