Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1953. Parish church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- tangled-copper-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1953
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Southtown Road, NR31 0JB
- OS grid reference
- TG 521 071
- Coordinates
- 52.60373, 1.72235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church located on Southtown Road in Great Yarmouth. It was built in 1831 by architect JJ Scoles and extended in 1893. The church is constructed of gault brick and features slate roofs.
The exterior includes a nave with five tall lancet windows on both the north and south sides, separated by flat buttresses that rise to low parapets. These buttresses have panels of knapped flint. The west front has a low narthex added in 1925, which is accessed through an arched doorway beneath a shouldered pediment, flanked by small lancets on either side. Above this, a similar shouldered pediment is framed by a pair of tall square pinnacles, with the main wall containing three stepped lancets and arched side doors. The roof is wide and gabled. The chancel features twin lancets on the north and south sides and has a blind east end.
Inside, there are no arcades and the ceiling is suspended. A gallery that once surrounded three walls was removed in 1914. The chancel contains triple pointed sedilia and a piscina. The altar, reredos, panelling, pulpit, and Litany desk were relocated from the Church of St Peter in 1964.
Local climate
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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings