St Mary's Arts Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. A Medieval Church. 3 related planning applications.
St Mary's Arts Centre
- WRENN ID
- salt-chamber-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St Mary's Arts Centre, Church Street, CO1 1NF
- OS grid reference
- TL 992 250
- Coordinates
- 51.88861, 0.89436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Arts Centre is a former church located on Church Street, originally known as the Church of St Mary-at-the-Wall. The medieval church was ruined during the Siege of Colchester in 1648 and was rebuilt between 1713 and 1714, except for the late 15th-century west tower. A new embattled stage was added to the tower in 1729. In 1872, the nave and chancel were reconstructed according to the designs of Sir Arthur Bloomfield. Inside the tower, there is a marble monument dedicated to John Rebow, dated 1699.
Local climate
St Mary's Arts Centre 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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