The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaize is a Grade I listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1958. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaize
- WRENN ID
- pitched-quoin-evening
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1958
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaize, Church Lane, Boxgrove, PO18 0ED
- OS grid reference
- SU 908 075
- Coordinates
- 50.85993, -0.71087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaize was founded around 1117. It is constructed of flint with dressings of Lavant stone, Purbeck marble, and Caen stone rubble, and has a tiled roof. The surviving fabric includes the chancel with aisles, the central tower, the north and south transepts, the easternmost bay of the nave, and the south porch. The majority of this structure dates to the 12th century, although the chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century. Features include flying buttresses and a 14th-century porch. The main part of the nave was demolished in the 18th century. In the northwest corner of the north transept are the remains of three round-headed 12th-century arches belonging to the former priory cloister. Other features include a Perpendicular font and De la Warn Chantry, dating to approximately 1526.
Local climate
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaize receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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