Church of St Mary and Churchyard Walls is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1985. Church.

Church of St Mary and Churchyard Walls

WRENN ID
open-cloister-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Staffordshire
Constituency
Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary and Churchyard Walls, Marsh Lane, Stanton
OS grid reference
SK 125 459
Coordinates
53.01084, -1.81386
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church built between 1846 and 1847 by W. Evans of Manchester. It is constructed from rock-faced ashlar with chiselled ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with coped verges. The church has a four-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, along with a south porch and a north vestry, supported by angle buttresses. Designed in the Early English style, the nave and chancel are adorned with lancet windows beneath plain hood moulds, a triple lancet window at the east end under a continuous hood mould, and a double lancet window at the west end. The west gable includes a gabled belfry with an open lancet arch that houses the bell.

Inside, there is a pointed chancel arch, and the nave roof features arch-braced collars with king posts above, double purlins, and a narrow ridge piece. The principals and braces rest on short beams that project from the wall plate level and are supported by short posts on corbels. The chancel roof has braced collars with a king post and raking struts above, along with single purlins and a narrow ridge piece, with collar braces springing from corbels.

Notable fittings include a 19th-century stone font with a squat stepped base, an octagonal pedestal with a moulded bottom, and an octagonal bowl featuring carved trefoil-headed blind arcading. There are also 19th-century wooden bench pews, a seven-sided 19th-century pulpit accessed from the vestry with trefoil head panels and nook shafts at each angle, a brass eagle lectern, and a 19th-century balustraded wooden altar rail with balusters resembling nook shafts flanking open pointed arches. The east window is adorned with stained glass. The church is set within a small churchyard enclosed by rubble walls.

Local climate

Church of St Mary and Churchyard Walls receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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