Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- strange-shingle-sepia
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Leyton and Wanstead MP: Mr Calvin Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road E10, E10 5JX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 376 868
- Coordinates
- 51.5638, -0.01505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church that was mainly rebuilt in the 19th century, with further alterations made in 1932. The tower and likely part of the north aisle wall date back to 1658, while the west end of the chancel was completed in 1693. The south aisle and vestry were designed by John Shaw in 1822, and the baptistry was added in 1884. The east end was altered and enlarged in 1932. The church features a brick tower and aisles, a stucco clerestory, and a pantiled pitched roof, predominantly in the Gothic revival style.
It has a four-bay aisled nave, a two-storey south porch, and a lower chancel. The square western tower consists of three stages with corner buttresses and a domed 18th-century clock turret. The aisle windows have cuspless geometrical tracery, while the clerestory features square-headed mullioned windows, each with three arched lights. The arcade is supported by octagonal piers and round-headed arches, and the pointed chancel-arch is believed to date from 1932. The roof trusses are mainly encased, and there is some Victorian stained glass. Inside, there are various monuments, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, including elaborate memorials to the Hicks family beneath the tower and a monument to William Bosanquet from 1813 by John Flaxman on the west wall of the north aisle.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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