Ruins of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. Church ruins.

Ruins of Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
spare-chapel-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Great Yarmouth
Constituency
Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
Country
England
Type
Church ruins
Address
Ruins of Church of St Mary, Somerton
OS grid reference
TG 480 197
Coordinates
52.71824, 1.6719
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ruins of the Church of St. Mary are a parish church dating from the medieval period. The structure is built of knapped flint with ashlar dressings, with the flints of the nave becoming whole. The church features a west tower and a nave, with the tower consisting of three stages, although the belfry stage is now missing. Diagonal buttresses support the tower, which has a set-off at the ringing chamber. The west window is represented by a hole, while pointed lancets can be seen in the ringing chamber. There are three very tall nave windows on both the north and south sides, with remains of stepped buttresses between them. The windows lack tracery, and two western bays have large holes in the walls. The chancel arch is adorned with roll and sunk hollow mouldings, but there is no trace of the chancel itself.

Local climate

Ruins of Church of St Mary receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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