Former St Mark's church hall and school is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Church hall and school.

Former St Mark's church hall and school

WRENN ID
hushed-step-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leicester
Constituency
Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Church hall and school
Address
Former St Mark's church hall and school, Memory Lane, City of Leicester, LE1 3LU
OS grid reference
SK 590 053
Coordinates
52.64309, -1.12836
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former St Mark's church hall and school was built between 1869 and 1872, designed by architect Ewan Christian in the Gothic style. The building is faced in purple granite rubble with stone dressings and has slate roofs. On the right side facing Memory Lane, there is a single-storey projecting semi-circular end of the hall with a conical roof and shouldered heads to the windows. To the left, there is a projecting gable featuring a large plate-traceried window, a gabled porch at the side, and a slightly outbuilt chimney that is off centre.

Local climate

Former St Mark's church hall and school 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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