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 5 June 1953. A Medieval Church.
Church of St. Mary
- WRENN ID
- slow-jamb-clover
- Grade
- II*
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St. Mary, Anmer, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 737 295
- Coordinates
- 52.83503, 0.57849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a parish church that dates from the 14th century, featuring Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with the chancel mainly restored in the late 19th century to an Early English style. It is constructed of rubble flint with stone dressings and has plain tiled roofs from the late 19th century. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, south porch, and south chapel.
The west tower is built in the Perpendicular style, featuring a west door and a three-light window, along with two angle buttresses that have flushwork. It has four two-light belfry windows and a battlemented parapet. The nave has three bays, with a Decorated north door and two windows: one with a four-centred three-light design and another with straight-headed three-light Perpendicular tracery. The south side of the nave has two blocked openings and one two-light window located between the south porch and south chapel, which is set under a red brick relieving arch.
The south porch features a 14th-century Decorated arch, with angle buttresses and north and south windows. It has an ambitious stone pointed tunnel vault with transverse arches that appears to be from the late 19th century. The south chapel, built by Sir Oliver Calthorpe in the 14th century, has one west lancet window, one south window, and a fine three-light east window with flowing tracery. Its gable roof is from the late 19th century. The chancel has two bays, with external details largely from the late 19th century, including a four-light intersecting tracery east window that reproduces earlier designs.
Inside, there is a Perpendicular tower arch with an elaborate clustered pier and battlemented collar capital. The font, dating from the 15th century, has been recut and features shields. The nave has a late 19th-century arched braced hammer beam roof with seven and a half bays. The chancel arch is Perpendicular and includes stairs and a rood loft arch from the south side. The chancel roof has three bays and all internal details are from the late 19th century. The Calthorpe Chapel to the south was restored in 1895 and features a screen to the Decorated arch from the nave, along with a panelled roof with bosses and a reredos. There are two 18th-century wall monuments and a ledger slab floor, as well as an 18th-century baluster font. The nave displays the Royal Arms of George III from before 1801, six painted Coldham hatchments, and has benches and a screen from 1906. The west window in the tower was made by Ward and Hughes in 1884.
Local climate
Church of St. Mary receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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