Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1977. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- slow-flue-furze
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton South East MP: Pat McFadden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1977
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Oxford Street, City of Wolverhampton
- OS grid reference
- SO 954 962
- Coordinates
- 52.56392, -2.06808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building located on Oxford Street in Bilston, Wolverhampton. It was constructed between 1827 and 1829 by architect Francis Goodwin and is designed in the Early English style. The church features an ashlar exterior with a parapeted roof and consists of a six-bay single-vessel nave and chancel, an east apse, and a west tower.
The windows are notable for their cusped iron Y-tracery set in splayed reveals between offset buttresses. The narrow west bays contain blind lancets with ogee hoods. The top cornice and high parapet enhance the structure's profile, while the east canted apse is adorned with tall windows and an entrance featuring a four-centred head and paired doors, flanked by blind lancets and diagonal buttresses. The canted west angles showcase two-light windows above entrances with four-centred heads. The west end is dominated by the tower, which has flanking blind windows, diagonal buttresses, and a pointed entrance with head stops beneath a two-light window. There is a gabled roundel, possibly intended for a clock face, and the octagonal bell stage is topped with truncated pinnacles and flying buttresses at the angles, along with louvred lancets, a parapet, and eight crocketed pinnacles.
Inside, the church features three galleries supported by iron columns.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings