Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. A C15 Church.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- dark-wattle-equinox
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- TL 432 089
- Coordinates
- 51.76053, 0.07411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building, primarily dating from the 15th century, featuring plastered elevations. It consists of a nave, a west tower, a chancel, a south porch, and two east transepts. The south door is designed in a 13th-century style and is accompanied by two square-headed windows with four lights and a transom-hood moulding. The south transept, built of red brick in the 17th century, includes an eight-light window with cinquefoiled hood moulding. The north transept features a restored three-light window with quatrefoils and reticulation. The west tower has a plinth, two offsets, an embattled parapet, and a short spire topped with a vane. It also has a plain rectangular window on the first stage and two belfry windows with trefoils. The nave and chancel share a continuous roof that retains some early components. The font is octagonal with a 15th-century stem and bowl. The interior includes some armorial glass and oak poppy-head benches in the nave.
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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