Presbytery at St Mary's Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1998. Presbytery.

Presbytery at St Mary's Abbey

WRENN ID
outer-keep-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stafford
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1998
Type
Presbytery
Address
Presbytery at St Mary's Abbey, Oulton Road, Stone Rural
OS grid reference
SJ 908 356
Coordinates
52.91803, -2.13812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The presbytery at St Mary's Abbey was built in 1892 and is constructed from coursed rock-faced stone with freestone dressings. It features a clay shaped tile roof with stone coped gable ends and an apex cross, along with stone axial stacks that have weathered caps.

The building has a central entrance and stair hall, with a cross-wing on the left and an attachment to the Chapel of St Mary's Abbey on the right. It is designed in the Gothic style and has two storeys. The south front is asymmetrical with three bays. The projecting gabled cross-wing on the left includes three-light stone Gothic windows with cusped pointed arch lights, while a similar two-light window is located on the first floor of the gable on the right, which has a single-storey wing projecting below. The central porch features wooden braces that support a lean-to canopy, along with two circular cusped windows and a triangular dormer above.

On the west elevation, which is on the side of the cross-wing, there are two-light Gothic windows, with the first floor set in small gables. The rear, or north side, has projecting gables on the left and right, featuring stone Gothic windows and two circular cusped windows between them, along with a triangular dormer in the roof above.

The interior appears to be largely intact, with an entrance hall that has moulded wooden pointed arch doorframes, and an open-well staircase with turned balusters and newels that have finials and pendants.

Local climate

Presbytery at St Mary's Abbey receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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