Ruins of Old Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1959. Church ruins.
Ruins of Old Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- eastward-remnant-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1959
- Type
- Church ruins
- Address
- Ruins of Old Church of St Mary, Churchgate Street, Southery, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TL 622 947
- Coordinates
- 52.52619, 0.39048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of the Old Church of St. Mary, a former parish church dating from the 15th century, are located on Southery Churchgate Street. The structure is built from ferruginous conglomerate, ashlar, and bricks, featuring a nave and chancel. The west wall is constructed with galleted chequered ashlar and ferruginous conglomerate. The arched west door has been repaired with brick, as have the jambs of the arched west window above, which lacks tracery. There are early 19th-century brick repairs on the south side of the west front, extending down the south flank in the form of an aisled extension. The south side also has flat brick buttresses and three arched window openings. The north door is of ogee form and features hollow mouldings. To the east, there are two depressed arched window openings, and the chancel's east window opening is faced with brick, also without tracery. An internal rood stair door remains intact.
Local climate
Ruins of Old Church of St Mary 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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