Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
eastward-brass-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Braiseworth
OS grid reference
TM 133 717
Coordinates
52.30268, 1.12788
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a former parish church, now redundant, built between 1857 and 1858 by E.B. Lamb. It incorporates 12th-century doorways from the old church. The structure includes a nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry, constructed from flint rubble with stone dressings and topped with a plaintiled roof featuring ridge tiles. Designed in a Neo-Norman style, the church has round-headed windows arranged in groups of one, two, and three, with the apse illuminated by seven small windows. The west end features a group of three lancet windows above which is an octfoil circular window, all set within an arched recess. A gabled bell turret is also present.

Notable features include a well-preserved south nave doorway from the 12th century, which has a slightly pointed arch with a continuous inner order of zig-zag decoration, one order of colonnettes with carved capitals, and a further order of carving above the arch, along with a continuous outer band of carved motifs that is gabled over the arch. The entrance arch of the porch reuses a simpler 12th-century doorway. There are two gabled dormers added to the north nave and south chancel in the early 20th century. Inside, the church features tiled window reveals with deep rere-arches and an early 17th-century pulpit.

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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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