Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 January 1950. Church.
Parish Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- roaming-gravel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East MP: Shivani Raja (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1950
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Mary, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 626 059
- Coordinates
- 52.64798, -1.07576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building located in Humberstone. The church features a 14th-century west tower, which is designed in four stages and includes angle buttresses, a quatrefoil frieze, and a short broach spire. The chancel retains medieval masonry, while the nave and both the north and south sides were rebuilt in an early 15th-century style by architect Raphael Brandon in 1858. The west tower also contains some moulded effigies, incised stones, and a monument to Richard Hotoft, which features an incised slab of a knight on a tomb-chest, dating from 1451.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Mary receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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