Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. A 19th century Parish church.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- other-iron-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ringwood Road, Bransgore
- OS grid reference
- SZ 191 974
- Coordinates
- 50.7766, -1.73021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church built in 1822 by J Hannaford, with the chancel added in 1873 by B Ferrey. It is constructed of brick with golden limestone dressings and has a slate roof. This church follows the Commissioners style and features an added apsidal chancel, a 4-bay nave, a northeast vestry, and a west tower. The half-octagonal chancel has lancet windows on three sides and buttresses at the corners. The nave is distinguished by large lancet windows with buttresses in between, and diagonal corner buttresses topped with gabled finials. The vestry, which consists of two sections, has two square-headed two-light windows on the east side and a pointed door on the west end. The west tower, which has two stages and corner buttresses, features a large west doorway with a pointed door in a square-headed frame, adorned with quatrefoils in the spandrels and a louvred lancet above. The crenellated parapet adds to its character. The interior remains quite plain, much as it was originally built.
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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