Parish Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. Church.
Parish Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
- muted-cobble-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of Saint Mary, High Street, Clophill
- OS grid reference
- TL 090 382
- Coordinates
- 52.03193, -0.41251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of Saint Mary is a church built between 1847 and 1849 by Thomas Smith, who served as the County Surveyor of Bedfordshire from 1847 to 1855. The construction was funded through public subscription and the church underwent restoration in 1879. It is made of coursed ironstone blocks with ashlar dressings and features a 19th-century roof covering. The church includes a west tower, nave, south aisle, south porch, and chancel, all designed in a 15th-century style.
The west tower has three stages and an octagonal stair turret at the southeast angle, topped with embattled parapets. The bell-stage has windows with two cinquefoiled lights under flat heads, while the east elevation features a three-light pointed arched window. The nave and south aisle have a total of four windows in the nave and three in the south aisle, consisting of two and three cinquefoiled lights under depressed two-centred heads. Originally, the nave had a clerestory and both the nave and aisle were embattled. The south porch is gabled and has a pointed arched doorway. The chancel consists of a single bay with a pointed arched four-light east window, and the plain parapet has been removed.
Inside, the church is very plain, but there is a chapel in the south aisle that contains a re-used 16th-century screen with a carved leaf frieze.
Local climate
Parish Church of Saint Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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