Church of St Mary the Virgin 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 Victorian Church.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- guardian-oriel-flax
- 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
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Main Street, Welney, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TL 526 938
- Coordinates
- 52.52118, 0.24806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church built in 1848 by J C Buckler. It is constructed from coursed carstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a continuous nave and chancel designed in the Early English style, with a gabled west end. The west entrance includes an arched door beneath a two-light window with plate tracery. Diagonal buttresses support the nave, which has two-light windows also featuring plate tracery with trefoils above the trefoiled lights. The south door is trefoiled and located below a lancet. The church has flat side buttresses and a dentil eaves course. At the apex of the east nave gable, there is a gabled bellcote containing a bell in a trefoiled opening. The chancel has side windows with trefoiled lancets, two on the south and one on the north, and a three-light plate traceried east window. Flat east buttresses display modified stiff leaf decoration. To the north of the chancel is a lean-to vestry with two lancets and a trefoiled door.
Inside, there is a west gallery supported by six splayed timber posts. The nave roof features large arched braces to collars that spring from corbels, with two tiers of through purlins. The chancel arch is hollow chamfered and has engaged columns. The chancel roof mirrors that of the nave. A stone reredos from 1887 is located in the chancel, consisting of three cusped arched bays, each topped with a crocketed and finialed gable. The east window contains glass by T Wilshurst, depicting Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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