Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1992. Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
empty-lead-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wolverhampton
Constituency
Wolverhampton South East MP: Pat McFadden (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1992
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Gorge Road, City of Wolverhampton
OS grid reference
SO 928 941
Coordinates
52.54548, -2.10711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a church built in 1872, with a later addition in 1911. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a 20th-century tiled roof, designed in the Early English style. The chancel includes a gabled north organ loft and a south vestry, while the nave has lean-to aisles along with north and south porches. The building has coped gables and offset buttresses.

The chancel's east window consists of five stepped lancets beneath a hood mould, and the 1911 organ loft features a lancet window. The vestry has three lancets and a lean-to projection on the right with an entrance and an ashlar stack. The five-bay nave includes short paired lancets in the clerestory, and the west end has three traceried lancets below a wheel window with a pointed hood and a gable cross. The aisles have single lancets, with triple lancets in the east bays and gabled porches that feature pointed entrances and paired doors.

Inside, the church boasts arch-braced roofs and a chancel arch with foliate capitals on the imposts. There is a two-bay arcade leading to the organ loft and five-bay nave arcades supported by round piers. The reredos features traceried panelling, and there is an enriched timber pulpit on a stone base, along with an eagle lectern on a pinnacled base. A panelled screen to the organ loft, created between 1908 and 1915, is adorned with painted angels. The church contains good 19th and 20th-century stained glass, including Arts and Crafts style glass by A.E. and P.E. Lemmon of Bromsgrove.

Local climate

Church of St Mary 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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