Church of St Mary and churchyard wall and gate is a Grade I listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1954. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary and churchyard wall and gate
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gateway-ivory
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1954
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary and churchyard wall and gate, Battersea Church Road, Sw11, SW11 3LY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 268 768
- Coordinates
- 51.47655, -0.17545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary, built between 1775 and 1777 by Joseph Dixon, is a Grade I listed building located on Battersea Church Road. It features a brown brick construction with stone quoins and other decorative elements. The church has a tetrastyle Doric porch and a west tower topped with a cyma-bracketed cornice, which supports urn finials at the corners and an octagonal wooden steeple. The windows are set back within gauged brick arches, with segmental heads at the aisle level and round arches at the gallery.
Inside, the church has a flat ceiling with a cove above the cornice. A gallery runs along three sides, featuring a panelled front that is cantilevered on shaped brackets above wooden Doric-type columns. The east window, dating from 1631, is made of stained and enamelled glass attributed to Bernard van Linge and is of exceptional quality, having been transferred in its entirety from an older church.
The churchyard is enclosed by red and brown brick retaining walls along the riverside, and there are ornamental wrought iron gates, including one double gate and two single gates, located to the south and east of the churchyard.
Local climate
Church of St Mary and churchyard wall and gate 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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