Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fading-spire-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Shackleford Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 940 448
- Coordinates
- 51.19519, -0.65515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a church built in 1865 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed from snecked Bargate sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a timber-framed porch and plain tiled roofs, along with a wooden shingled broach spire at the center. The church has a cruciform plan with a central crossing tower and is designed in the Early English style. The tower has large lancet openings that are louvred and accented by hood mouldings, with zig-zag mouldings along the eaves. An octagonal stair turret is located at the southeast corner of the tower.
Inside, the nave is clerestoried and has pentice-roofed aisles, with quatrefoil clerestory windows—four on each side. The aisles feature two-light windows with foliage capitals on the mullions. The west end is buttressed and includes three large lancets for the nave and one west window for each aisle. A roundel window is present in the nave gable. The chancel is apsidal, with corbelled eaves and five lancet windows that also have foliage capitals on the mullions.
The west end has planked doors with strapwork hinges, flanked by arched panels and double orders on the jamb shafts. There is a heavy gabled timber-framed porch on the south side, adorned with cusped bargeboards and a cambered tie beam supporting the crown post roof. The entrance arch of the porch features dog-tooth moulding, and the south doors are doubled in stone dress with a dog-tooth surround and jamb shafts.
The interior comprises stone and plaster, with 19th-century fittings.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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