Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1958. A {C14,C15,C17,C19} Church.
Parish Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lime-burdock
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- {C14,C15,C17,C19}
- Address
- Parish Church of St Mary, Rectory Road, Bluntisham
- OS grid reference
- TL 372 744
- Coordinates
- 52.35101, 0.01367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Mary in Bluntisham is a Grade I listed building. It features an apsidal chancel and chapel from the 14th century, a west tower from the late 14th century, and a nave with aisles built in the mid-15th century, along with later porches and buttresses. The church has undergone restoration and repair in the 17th and 19th centuries. Its walls are made of stone and pebble rubble, with Ketton and Barnack stone and clunch dressings, while some brick is present in the upper stages of the tower. The roofs are covered with lead and old plain tiles.
The tower consists of three stages, topped with an embattled parapet and a stair turret at the northeast angle. It features an octagonal spire with alternating spire lights that have gabled heads. The aisles extend to the face of the tower, which has a wave-moulded plinth band interrupted by later porches and buttresses. The nave has a clerestory with four windows, each containing two cinquefoil lights in four-centred heads. The chancel has an apsidal end with tripartite, lead-covered, sloping gable roofs, featuring two trefoiled light windows on each face. The south and north porches bear the inscription "1656 GPITS and TCI."
Inside, there are three tower arches with wave-moulded orders of clunch. The chancel arch and the north and south arcades consist of four bays with two-centred arches, supported by moulded columns with four attached shafts, moulded capitals, and bases. The fine 15th-century nave roof has four bays, with wall posts resting on carved stone corbels. An early 16th-century oak door with a two-centred head leads to the ringing chamber, which also has a nail-studded oak plank door. The font, made of Barnack stone, features quatrefoil panels and is panelled and carved with 'green men' on the underside.
Local climate
Parish 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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