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. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- turning-corbel-quill
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Stradsett, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 668 056
- Coordinates
- 52.62331, 0.46309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a parish church with a west tower dating from the 13th century. The nave and chancel, originally from the same period, were restored in 1891. The building is constructed of carstone and ashlar, with flint used in the tower, while the nave and chancel are rendered. The tower is three stages high and unbuttressed, featuring a west lancet window under a hood mould that is just becoming pointed. String courses separate the storeys, and there is a square lancet window in the ringing chamber on the west side only. The first stage has pointed lancets on both the north and south sides. The belfry windows, which are early 15th century, are two-light cusped with four-centred arches set on twisted 13th-century shafts. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles, both also from the 15th century. The coping on the west nave gable has been repaired but rests on grotesque corbels from the 13th century. There is a gabled south porch added in 1891, and a 13th-century south door with a hood mould featuring head stops. The church has three cusped intersecting windows on the south and four similar windows on the north, all from 1891. An arched 13th-century priest's door and diagonal east buttresses are also present. The east window, dating from the 15th century, has three lights with pointed cusped lights below a series of ogee sub-lights and rising central supermullions, all topped with a hood mould.
Inside, the church features a 13th-century tower arch that is chamfered and terminates below imposts with tongue stops. The chamfered pointed arch has a deep plain soffit, with the chamfers springing from broaches. The rere-arch to the west tower lancet contains a 16th-century German stained glass panel depicting the Crucifixion, with angels above a roundel of the Lamb carrying a flag. The roof, added in the 19th century, imitates a hammerbeam style. The east window contains stained glass panels depicting the adoration of the Magi, made in Augsburg in 1540 and inserted in 1820. There is a wall monument in the north chancel to Thomas Philip Bagge from 1827, created by Sir Richard Westmacott, featuring a seated mourning figure of a woman above an inscription plaque. On the south chancel wall is a monument to Grace Bagge from 1834, made of white marble, with two embracing angels above an inscription plaque. Beneath the chancel seating is a memorial brass to Thomas Lathe from 1418, depicted wearing armor.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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