Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- pale-corbel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Newport Road, Old Woughton
- OS grid reference
- SP 876 375
- Coordinates
- 52.02986, -0.72324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a parish church located on the east side of Newport Road in Woughton on the Green. It dates from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries and was restored in the 19th century. The church is built of coursed limestone and features lead and slate roofs, with tiles on the chancel and south porch. The west tower, which is embattled, dates from the 15th century and consists of three stages. The nave and aisle are from the 13th and 14th centuries, while the porch is a 19th-century addition. The chancel has been restored and includes traceried windows, with a 19th-century east window and a 14th-century south doorway.
Inside, there is a single arcade of four bays supported by piers with clustered shafts and plain moulded capitals. The chancel arch is plain, and there is an ogee-headed tomb recess with a recumbent effigy, likely from the 14th century. The south aisle contains the rood stairs, which have upper and lower doors, the latter featuring carved decoration above. There is also a 14th-century piscina and a tub-shaped font from the 13th century. A monument on the south chancel wall commemorates Martha James, who died in 1746, and features a panel with flanking Corinthian pilasters, side scrolls, a cornice broken forward over the pilasters, and a segmental pediment with a central urn. The apron includes scrolls with a cartouche of arms supported by a cherub's head.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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