Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1992. Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
cold-gable-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1992
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Bitterley
OS grid reference
SO 610 786
Coordinates
52.40451, -2.57349
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed church built in 1878 by T Nicholson of Hereford for Rev George Pardoe. It is constructed from coursed squared stone with stone dressings and features plain-tile and shingle roofs, complete with stone-coped gables and finials, reflecting an Early English style.

The church's layout includes a chancel, nave, a west tower integrated within the nave, a south porch, and a north organ chamber with a vestry. The exterior showcases a plinth, buttresses with offsets, and a continuous string course that acts as a hoodmould over most windows. The chancel features triple lancets on the east side, two lancets on the south, and a lean-to vestry on the north with small paired lancets and a northeast door. The nave has both single and paired lancets, along with a south porch that boasts a timber-framed entrance arch decorated with open-work trefoils, a quatrefoil, and ornamental bargeboards. To the west of the nave is a single lancet, and above it is a single-stage tower with twin lancet bell-chamber openings, a quatrefoil frieze, and a shingle broach spire.

Inside, the roofs are supported by curved braces to collars, with the west bay being boarded. The chancel includes an aumbry, piscina, and sedilia, as well as choir stalls and an open-work screen. The nave contains a pulpit, font, and pews, with some stained glass present. The narthex at the west end is formed by one large and two small open arches, with the large arch repeated to the north and south behind the arcade, all of which support the tower.

Local climate

Church of St Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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