Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
first-marble-thunder
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Mary, Church End, Weston Colville
OS grid reference
TL 616 531
Coordinates
52.15301, 0.361
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church with medieval origins, significantly rebuilt around 1825. It is constructed from flint and fieldstones, with clunch and limestone dressings, while the 19th-century dressings are made of gault brick. The church features slate roofs and includes a west tower, an aisleless nave, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The west tower is primarily from the 19th century, except for its ground stage, which has a wide splay to the rear arch of the west window. The tower is embattled and consists of three stages with diagonal buttressing. It has a moulded main cornice, and the window openings are 19th-century with segmental arches, except for the west window, which is surrounded by gault brick.

The nave has three windows in the south wall made of clunch, each featuring two moulded orders within a four-centred head and a label, dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. The south porch, from the 14th to 15th centuries, has a two-centred outer arch of clunch with two continuous moulded orders. The inner arch is also of clunch, two-centred, and has three continuous moulded orders with a label. The chancel, dating from the 19th century, has two windows in the south wall, each with two leaded lights featuring Y tracery of wood in two-centred arches and brick surrounds, along with perpendicular style tracery of limestone.

On the north wall of the nave, there are three restored clunch windows with limestone, featuring two-centred arches and Y tracery. Inside, there is a late 13th-century chancel arch with three grouped shafts, moulded capitals, and bases in a two-centred arch. Notable brasses can be found south of the chancel arch, commemorating Robert Leverer (died 1427), his wife Isabella, and their son John, as well as Abraham Gates (died 1636) and his wife. Additionally, there is a niche on the north wall of the nave with cinquefoil cusping at the head, dating from the 15th century.

Local climate

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 87% 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 53% 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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