Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1966. A C16 Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- steep-spandrel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Kingstone
- OS grid reference
- SK 029 317
- Coordinates
- 52.88279, -1.95784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a former parish church that now serves as a chapel-of-ease. The chancel dates from the 16th century, while the rest of the building was rebuilt in 1775. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof with coped verges. The church is designed in a Gothic style, with a three-bay nave that includes a south porch and a two-bay chancel.
The nave has pointed windows with lead latticework, a pointed west window with decorative glazing bars, a small round-headed window in the gable, and an open gabled belfry at the apex. The gabled porch has a pointed entrance arch leading to a pointed south door, coped verges on shaped kneelers, and a finial at the apex, along with a blind circular panel above the porch.
On the chancel's south side, there is a two-light hollow chamfered mullion window to the right with a rebated frame, a small round-headed window to the left, and a central door with a Tudor arch. The north side features a two-light hollow chamfered mullion window to the right, while the east window consists of three segment-headed lights under a straight hood mould.
Inside, the chancel roof has an arch-braced cambered tie beam with a later king post above. There is also an early 19th-century wooden pulpit with lancet panels and colonettes.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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