Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St Mark

WRENN ID
narrow-pediment-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mark, Church Lane, Colney Heath
OS grid reference
TL 197 061
Coordinates
51.74146, -0.26771
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mark is a parish church built in 1845, designed in a Norman and early Gothic style influenced by North Italian architecture. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The church has a single aisle and an apsidal eastern end, along with a northwest campanile tower topped by a sprocketed spire.

The large gabled north porch is supported by heavy stone columns and includes an open staircase leading to the tower. The nave contains five round-headed lancet windows on the south side, while the apse features three lancets with inset stone colonnettes that have cushion capitals. The capitals of the porch are intricately leaf-carved and support roll-moulded arches. The open staircase is adorned with thin colonnettes.

The campanile is reinforced with angle buttresses at its lower section and has small first-floor lancets with colonnettes, along with a miniature arcade above. The second stage of the tower includes clock faces, while the third stage features three colonnettes and twin-louvred belfry lights. The eaves are decorated with a lozenge pattern and a wide soffit. The west window is plate traceried.

Inside, the apse is designed as a niche with a ribbed vault, and the walls have panels alternating with lancets. A west gallery is supported by thin cast iron columns.

Local climate

Church of St Mark 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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