Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Church. 7 related planning applications.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- idle-storey-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Twyford
- OS grid reference
- SU 788 758
- Coordinates
- 51.47646, -0.86597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Church, largely dating to 1846, designed by Benjamin Ferrey in the Early English style. A north aisle was added in 1883, and a tower in 1908-10 by S. Stallwood. The church is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings. The exterior features buttressed walls and plate tracery windows, with coped gables to the tiled roof. The church consists of a five-bay nave, north and south aisles, a square tower on the northwest, and a gabled entrance porch on the south side. The three-stage tower has stone string courses, a cornice, a plain parapet, and a small pyramidal tiled roof. It includes three-light windows with stone mullions and heavily moulded pointed heads on the top stage, and simpler narrow slits elsewhere. A small stone bellcote sits centrally on the ridge of the nave. Internally, the church has arcades composed of alternating octagonal and round columns with moulded capitals, supporting round arches. The roof is arch braced with king posts and curved windbraces to the purlins. Stained glass by Willement, dated 1847, is found in two lancets in the south aisle.
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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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