Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. A C19 Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- bitter-soffit-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Adwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 696 995
- Coordinates
- 51.69068, -0.99384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a church built around 1865, incorporating some earlier features. It was designed by A.W. Blomfield for H. Birch Reynardson. The building is constructed of knapped flint with stone dressings and has an old plain-tile roof. It features a stone bellcote and a stone chimney stack on the ridge of the chancel chapel. The church has a four-bay nave and a chancel with chancel chapels, all in the Gothic Revival style.
To the left of the nave, there is a porch that contains a re-set Romanesque doorway with a moulded round arch supported by columns, along with a 19th-century plank door. The nave has two-light windows with reticulated tracery, while the chancel chapel has a two-light window with Y-tracery. The rear of the nave features lancet windows, except for a two-light window with reticulated tracery on the right. The chancel chapel also has a two-light Y-tracery window, and the east end is adorned with a three-light window featuring intersecting tracery. The west end includes a central buttress that supports an ornate stone bellcote, flanked by lancets.
Inside, the church has scissor-braced roofs in the chancel and chapels, and an arch-braced collar-truss roof with king-posts in the nave. Notable interior features include a Minton encaustic tile reredos, sedilia with re-set Early English tracery, and a Gothick-style monument to Frances Webb from around 1846 located in the north chancel chapel. There is also an effigy of a knight holding his heart, partially covered by a shield, dating to around 1300, on the north wall of the nave. The church has a 19th-century font supported by cluster columns, and the east window was created by H. Hughes.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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