Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
gilded-lantern-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1968
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Clun
OS grid reference
SO 315 763
Coordinates
52.3809, -3.00637
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Mary is a church built in 1844 by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a rendered east end and a shingle-hung west end, topped with a slate roof. The church is designed in the lancet style and consists of a three-bay nave, a polygonal apse, a north-west vestry, and a south-west porch.

Architectural details include buttresses with a single set-off, diagonal buttresses at the corners, a chamfered cill string, verge parapets, and a gabled west bellcote with a chamfered-arched opening. The windows are lancets with chamfered reveals, including three in the apse and twin lancets on the west side. The south doorway, located in the first bay from the left, features a chamfered arch and a late 19th-century boarded door. The gabled porch has a chamfered archway with a returned hoodmould. The north-west vestry includes a lancet window to the north and a lean-to to the west with a boarded north door.

Inside, the roof is supported by two pairs of purlins and features arch-braced tie-beam and collar trusses, which include queen struts with flanking curved braces and a short king post from the collar. Notable interior features include a chamfered-arched vestry door, an octagonal wooden pulpit, and an octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels. There is also a reputed 17th-century chest in the vestry. The church is compared to the Church of St. John the Baptist on Church Road in Newcastle, which is also listed.

Local climate

Church of St Mary receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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