Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1952. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- winter-hammer-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1952
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Donnington
- OS grid reference
- SO 708 342
- Coordinates
- 52.00557, -2.42601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church dating from around 1300, which has undergone alterations and restorations over the years. The north aisle was added in 1862, and in 1878, the chancel was extended, and a porch and bellcote were added, along with new windows and other works. The church consists of a nave with a bell-turret at the west end, a south porch, a north aisle, a chancel, and a north vestry. It is built from coursed, squared rubble with freestone dressings and has a plain tiled roof.
The nave features two windows, one of which has Y-tracery, and both are cusped. There are buttresses with offsets at the corners, and the timber bell-turret has a pyramidal slate roof with trefoil-headed openings and quatrefoils above. A sundial is set at the south-east corner. The projecting gabled porch has an ashlar plinth and arcaded timber upper parts. The north aisle has a catslide roof and three windows, including one single-light window and two with two lights, all featuring cinquefoil heads.
The chancel includes 19th-century single and two-light windows, all with cinquefoil heads. Inside, there is a three-bay arcade leading to the north aisle, supported by octagonal piers and double chamfered arches, along with a pointed chancel arch. A notable monument in the chancel commemorates Edward Webb, who died in 1855, created by Lew of Cheltenham, featuring marble draped flags and arms, along with a sword and hat.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings