Church of St. Mary is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1966. Church.

Church of St. Mary

WRENN ID
small-cinder-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St. Mary, Church Road, Mablethorpe and Sutton
OS grid reference
TF 497 845
Coordinates
53.33658, 0.24801
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church dating back to around 1300, with significant alterations made in the 17th century, 19th century, and a complete rebuilding between 1976 and 1980 by G.R.A. Mack of Louth. The church is constructed from random mixed rubble and red brick, with slate roofs. It consists of a western tower, a nave with aisles (widened in the 20th century), a chancel, and a vestry.

The two-stage tower has a lower section in stone and an upper section in brick, featuring diagonal stepped brick buttresses offset to the belfry stage and a battlemented parapet. The belfry stage has paired rectangular lights from the 17th century. A 20th-century brick lean-to addition is attached to the base of the tower on the south side. The west aisle is constructed in 20th-century brick and incorporates reused 19th-century stonework details, including a two-light window. To the north of the west wall are two similar windows and a triple window, along with a wide doorway featuring panel tracery taken from Manby Church. A 20th-century vestry is also present. The chancel is constructed in banded stone and brick and has a 19th-century three-light east window. A late 13th-century window with two trefoil-headed lights is found in the south wall. The south aisle has been rebuilt using reused 18th-century bricks and incorporates four 19th-century two-light windows.

Inside, the tower arch is double-chamfered with octagonal imposts. The nave arcades, dating from around 1300, feature octagonal piers and capitals surmounted by 20th-century timber arcades. A double-chamfered 19th-century chancel arch has moulded octagonal imposts. The chancel contains a 19th-century arch for the organ loft and a 14th-century triple sedilia on the south side, with an opening to the vestry on the north side. The church contains a fine set of turned baluster altar rails with knops and an inscription on the top rail, including the date 1714. All other fittings are 20th-century. The font, dating from around 1400, is octagonal, with a panelled stem and cusped ogee panel tracery to the sides. Monuments include a limestone ledger slab in the north aisle with a full-length figure in low relief and a black letter inscription. Further monuments commemorate Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam (d.1403), his wife Elizabeth (d.1403), Elizabeth Fitzwilliam (d.1522), George Fitzwilliam (d.1536), and Thomas Fitzwilliam (d.1494), the latter being a dresser tomb in freestone with quatrefoils to the base, a four-centred arch, and a quatrefoil parapet.

Local climate

Church of St. Mary receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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