Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Church.
Parish Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- final-ember-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Mary, Church Street, Ashley
- OS grid reference
- TL 700 616
- Coordinates
- 52.22669, 0.48801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Mary is a Neo-Norman church built for the Marquis of Bute, with the nave completed in 1845 and the transepts and chancel added in 1872. The architects were Clark and Holland, and the church was restored in 1907. It is constructed of flint with Bath limestone and gault brick dressings, topped with red plain tile roofs. The layout includes a nave with transepts, an apsidal chancel, and a vestry located at the north angle. The exterior features round-headed recessed arches with windows in recessed panels adorned with tabled Romanesque ornament. There are large, three-light round arched, shafted windows in the apse and transept gables, along with a small bell turret and the main entrance located in the west gable wall.
Inside, the chancel and transept arches are round-headed, featuring two orders of chamfer and roll mouldings with attached shafts that have scalloped capitals and bases. The roofs are supported by simple hammer-beam trusses made of pitch pine, with the chancel roof displaying radiating trusses over the apse. The font dates from 1945.
Local climate
Parish Church of St 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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