Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1971. A C15 Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- silent-string-spindle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, St. Neots
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 601
- Coordinates
- 52.22692, -0.26702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is an early 13th-century building that was largely rebuilt in the late 15th century, with completion around 1486. Porches were added around 1489, and the west tower was constructed between 1490 and 1535. The church features a nave with five bays and a two-bay chancel, both flanked by aisles. It has a leaded roof topped with a battlemented parapet. The walls are made of flint and ironstone rubble, accented with Barnack ragstone dressings, while the tower is constructed of Barnack ragstone ashlar, featuring gablets on the buttresses and high corner pinnacles. The aisles are adorned with arched four-light windows that have panel tracery, and there are similar three-light clerestory windows. The west window has four lights with a castellated transom, and there is a modern east window. The two-storey porches include a south doorway with a traceried spandrel. Inside, the church boasts a beautifully carved oak roof featuring angels and beasts, along with intricately carved screens and stalls.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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