Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- hollow-tower-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Martin, Lower Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- SO 966 923
- Coordinates
- 52.52881, -2.05117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin is a church built between 1795 and 1797 by F Keyte of Kidderminster. It was partly rebuilt in the early 1960s due to subsidence damage. The church is constructed of stuccoed brick and features a hipped slate roof. It consists of a nave, a round west tower made of 20th-century brick that replaces an earlier taller structure, and a 20th-century brick chancel that replaces the chancel built between 1874 and 1876.
Both the north and south sides have five-bay arcades with round arches that spring from moulded imposts. Each arcade contains a round-headed window with a rusticated surround. At the west end, there are doorways on either side of the tower, which have been restored in artificial stone and feature an architrave and pediment. Inside, the church has a flat ceiling and galleries on three sides supported by slim iron columns.
Local climate
Church of St Martin receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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