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 6 February 1986. A C19 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- sombre-basalt-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Churchgate Street, Southery, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TL 621 946
- Coordinates
- 52.52519, 0.38941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1858 by Higham and Robinson. It features carstone slips and Bath stone dressings, with slate roofs. The structure includes a west steeple, a nave, a south aisle, and a chancel. The tower is square and has three stages, with diagonal buttresses at the first stage. It has a two-light plate tracery west window and two-light louvred belfry windows, topped by a leaded broach spire. The south aisle has flat buttresses and two or three-light lancet windows. At the east end of the aisle, there is a vestry with a chimney that abuts the east gable of the nave. The chancel features lancet windows, with a triple stepped group on the east and paired windows on the flanks. The north nave is illuminated by three two-light plate tracery windows. A gabled north porch was added in 1904, which includes flushwork side parapets and low diagonal buttresses, along with cinquefoiled side lancets. Flushwork panels flank an arched opening below a statuary niche depicting the Virgin and child.
Inside, there is a four-bay south arcade supported by circular piers on chamfered plinths, with moulded capitals that hold double chamfered arches. The roof features arched braces on corbels extending to collars, with ashlaring and two tiers of plain through purlins. The south aisle roof is similar, with corbels that have head carvings. There is a double chamfered tower arch and a double chamfered chancel arch on semi-circular responds. The chancel screen is adorned with flowing tracery, and the chancel roof is scissor braced.
Local climate
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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