Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Parish church. 1 related planning application.

Parish Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
stubborn-chalk-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
Parish church
Address
Parish Church of St Mary, Corner of Coppice Row/Piercing Hill, Theydon Bois
OS grid reference
TQ 448 992
Coordinates
51.67359, 0.09338
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Mary dates to 1850 and was designed by Sydney Smirke. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and has a gabled slate roof. The church comprises a barn-like nave and a lower, articulated chancel, both with small, corner-angled buttresses. A tower is located to the southwest, featuring a pointed entrance arch and a square base that transitions to a broached octagonal bell stage capped with an octagonal copper-clad spire. Windows are generally paired with trefoiled heads, though the east window is of simplified geometrical design with three lights and three circles above. The west window has three lancet-like openings, with smaller circular lights positioned separately. Three gabled dormers are incorporated into the north nave roof slope. A 20th-century vestry and ancillary block adjoins the east end of the north side. Internally, the nave and chancel have arch-braced collar and open trussed roofs springing from corbel blocks. A chamfered chancel arch is present, lacking capitals. Funerary hatchments are displayed on the spandrels of the arcade.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 0.3°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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