Church of St Mary in Arden is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1952. Church.
Church of St Mary in Arden
- WRENN ID
- silent-lime-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1952
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary in Arden, Great Bowden Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 875
- Coordinates
- 52.48047, -0.91066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary in Arden, originally the Parish Church of Market Harborough, was rebuilt around 1693 to the designs of Henry Dormer on the site of an earlier church. The building is a simple oblong structure that is currently roofless, constructed of stone rubble faced with limestone ashlar. It features very shallow gables and a light cornice, with plain stonework on the windows. The south porch, which includes Norman "Beaks Head" decoration, retains a 14th or early 15th-century outer doorway. The porch is made of ironstone and has 17th-century limestone quoins, one of which is dated 1660 and bears initials that may belong to the mason. A few feet of rubble wall, visible only from the interior, remains on the east and west sides of the porch from the earlier building. Inside the south porch, there is an early 14th-century effigy of a lady that is broken and defaced.
Local climate
Church of St Mary in Arden receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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