Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1995. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- open-cloister-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, South Hill, Basildon
- OS grid reference
- TQ 678 864
- Coordinates
- 51.5521, 0.41959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a church built in 1876, designed by William White. It is constructed of Kentish ragstone and features sandstone plate-traceried windows and tiled roofs. The church has a nave with a north aisle, a lower chancel, a south porch, and a west tower. The three-bay nave includes two plate-tracery windows and a sexfoil above the elaborate south porch. The north side has a clerestory with squat plate-tracery windows, and the north aisle features double trefoil lancets. The chancel has one plate-traceried window and an east window consisting of three triple lancets with a sexfoil above. The three-stage west tower is topped with a corbelled parapet and has three arches leading to the bell stage, which includes wooden louvres, along with a semi-circular stair turret on the south side. Inside, there is an arcade leading to the north aisle with squat circular columns that have stiffleaf capitals, boarded trussed roofs with carved angels in the chancel roof, and geometric patterned tiles.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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