Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A Medieval Church. 5 related planning applications.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- burning-paling-crimson
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary, St Mary's Plain, NR3 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TG 228 091
- Coordinates
- 52.63418, 1.29148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a former parish church that is now redundant. It dates from the early 11th century and the 15th century. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressing and features lead roofs. It includes a west tower, nave, and chancel, as well as north and south transepts and a south porch.
The round tower has two-light windows with a central shaft and remade twin triangular arches. The nave has four bays and two three-light perpendicular windows with two centre arches on the south side. The two-storey south porch has re-faced diagonal buttresses and a badly weathered outer doorway with a moulded two-centre arch and spandrels. Above the door is a central statue niche flanked by two square-headed windows with cusped ogee tracery. There is a blocked two-light east window.
The single-bay transepts feature tall four-light perpendicular windows on the north and south sides, while the east side has three-light windows with staggered brattished transoms. Inside the chancel, there is a three-light perpendicular east window set within a higher arch that has earlier jambs at the arch-springing level. A blocked two-light decorated window is located in the north wall of the chancel.
Rood stairs are present in the north-east corner of the transept and chancel. The chancel arch is supported on corbels, and the roofs feature an arch-braced design with ridge-piece and curved wall-bracing in the transepts. Diagonal ribs over the crossing include a central carved boss and angels. The transept roofs have butt-purlins, and the small first bay of the nave roof also features butt-purlins. The chancel roof is arch-braced with curved wall bracing and is panelled with richly cusped quatrefoil and heraldry.
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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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