Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- third-sill-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, St Mary's Road, WS10 9DL
- OS grid reference
- SO 986 954
- Coordinates
- 52.55657, -2.02075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Roman Catholic church built between 1873 and 1874 by Gilbert Blount. It is constructed of brick and limestone with a tiled roof and features a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north-west tower, and a sanctuary with a three-sided apse. The nave consists of six bays, with windows in the aisles featuring two moulded pointed lights and three lights in the clerestory. The eastern bay has taller windows in both the aisle and clerestory, each under gables, with two lights and a foiled circle beneath a pointed head. The apse windows are similar. The west wall has four stepped lancets above a blocked pointed doorway. The tower is adorned with slim angle buttresses and has a moulded pointed doorway leading into a porch, above which is a niche containing a statue. The upper stage of the tower is open, featuring two steeply-pointed openings on each side with a central shaft and responding shafts. At the top, there is a copper pyramidal spire.
Inside, the church has an arcade of five bays leading to the nave and one bay leading to the chancel, with plastered pointed arches. The arches in the nave are chamfered in two orders and rest on octagonal columns with moulded capitals. The north and south arches of the sanctuary lead to side chapels, are moulded, and spring from corbelled shafts. The nave's open timber roof features principals rising from corbels and arch-braced collars, each supported by a central iron rod and curved struts. The sanctuary roof is plastered, with ribs that spring from wall shafts. At the west end, there is a gallery with an organ, and the sanctuary windows contain late 19th-century stained glass.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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