Former Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1968. Church.
Former Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- solitary-span-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Church of St Mary, Main Street, Freeby
- OS grid reference
- SK 784 188
- Coordinates
- 52.76112, -0.8385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Church of St. Mary is a parish church that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 14th century and was remodeled in 1660 before its conversion in 1977. The building features limestone ashlar and coursed, squared rubble, with slate and slab roofs.
The west tower has a chamfered plinth and a moulded band, along with three chamfered string courses and coved verges. It consists of four stages. The first stage includes a single ogee-headed lancet on the north, south, and west sides, all of which are blocked. The second stage has similar blocked lancets on the north and south. The third stage features an altered louvred opening to the east and the remains of a single lancet to the west. The bell stage has an ogee lancet bell opening on both the north and south sides. The saddleback roof is topped with an octagonal spirelet that has a finial and weathercock.
Both the east and west gables have two moulded cusped single lancet openings with hood moulds, and above these are ogee-headed niches with brackets adorned with ballflower ornament. The body of the former church was partly demolished during its conversion into a house in 1977. The tower is now managed by the Redundant Churches Fund.
Local climate
Former Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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