Church of St Mary and attached presbytery is a Grade II* listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. A Classical Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Mary and attached presbytery

WRENN ID
knotted-cornice-blackthorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Walsall
Constituency
Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Church
Period
Classical
Address
Church of St Mary and attached presbytery, Vicarage Walk, WS1 3NF
OS grid reference
SP 012 980
Coordinates
52.58011, -1.98348
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary and the attached presbytery is a Roman Catholic church built between 1825 and 1827 by Joseph Ireland, with the presbytery added in 1833. The building is made of stuccoed brick and has a slate roof, designed in a Greek style. It features a moulded plinth, giant Doric pilasters, an entablature, and pediments on both the east and west sides. The west wall includes clasping pilasters and two additional pilasters flanking the doorway, which slopes inward at the top. This doorway has an architrave and a moulded cornice.

Both the north and south walls consist of five bays, with the outer bays recessed between pilasters. The windows are adorned with lugged architraves and a sill band. The east wall mirrors the west wall but lacks any openings. To the left of the church is a single-storey, one-bay link to the presbytery, which is pedimented and consists of two storeys and three bays. The two left-hand bays of the presbytery feature a single bay window on the ground floor, while the doorway is located in the right-hand bay.

Inside the church, there is a shallow coffered tunnel vault. The west gallery, which houses the organ, is supported by two Doric columns. At the east end, four engaged fluted Ionic columns with an entablature are present, along with pilasters on the return walls that have acanthus necking.

Local climate

Church of St Mary and attached presbytery 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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