Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- hushed-transept-lichen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Road, Wheatley, OX33 1LZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 596 057
- Coordinates
- 51.74764, -1.13669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a church dating from 1855-7, designed by G.E. Street. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain-tile roof. The church comprises a three-bay aisled nave, a chancel with a two-bay north aisle, a west tower, and a south porch. It is built in the 13th century style. The chancel and aisles feature grouped lancet windows, separated by buttresses with cusped circular windows above the lancets at the ends of the south aisle. The south porch, added in 1887, has an outer arch in the Decorated style. The west tower, completed by Street in 1868, features a broach spire with tall two-light belfry openings in the gables and lucarnes on the angles. The west doorway has three chamfered orders below a three-light window with plate tracery. Inside, the church is largely plain with arch-braced collar-truss roofs, with the exception of the chancel which has a wagon roof and carved capitals to the aisle and east window. Stained glass from 1875 is in the east window, and the church contains fittings from the 19th century.
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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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