Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1953. A C12 (tower and chancel evidence) Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-sentry-falcon
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1953
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Titchwell, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 762 438
- Coordinates
- 52.9633, 0.62233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century, featuring a tower and chancel, with additional details from the 15th century and a late 19th-century porch. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressings, topped with slate roofs and a lead spirelet.
The church includes a 12th-century round tower that has a single 19th-century arch-headed lower window, a small triangular arched opening above, and three 2-light round-arched belfry windows, each with central balustraded shafts and cushion capitals. The nave is aisleless with three bays, and the chancel has two bays. There are two 15th-century nave windows on both the south and north sides, along with two buttresses and a blocked north door. The chancel features two south windows from the 15th century, one of which is blocked, and a three-light east window with a buttress on the south end. There are also two north 2-light straight-headed windows.
Inside, the church showcases a fine Early English south door arch with detached shafts and a deeply moulded pointed arch. The nave tower arch is from the 12th century, and the font, which is octagonal and chamfered, dates from the 11th to 12th century but is set on a 19th-century base. The nave roof was installed in 1890, and the chancel arch is from the 15th century, featuring a rood screen with some painted panels and original tracery, restored in the 19th century. Evidence of 12th-century work in the chancel was revealed during a restoration in 1903, including a south side splayed window embrasure interrupted by a blocked 15th-century south window, and two blocked splays in the east wall. A 14th-century ogee-headed piscina interrupts an exposed early opening, and an early 19th-century north priest's door interrupts a 14th-century arched recess.
The freestanding wooden font, believed to be from 1794, actually has mid-18th-century details. The nave contains stained glass windows by Edward Frampton from 1907, Heaton, Butler and Bayne from around 1908, and Mayer and Co. from 1869 and 1881.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 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.
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