Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic) is a Grade II listed building in the Worthing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1976. Church.
Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic)
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gable-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worthing
- Constituency
- Worthing West MP: Dr Beccy Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1976
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic), Richmond Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 144 027
- Coordinates
- 50.81326, -0.37731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Roman Catholic church built in 1864, attributed to architect Henry Clutton. The church features plum-red brick, matching the adjacent convent, and has a steep tiled roof. It includes plate tracery and rose windows at the east end (ritual west) and in the north transept, along with three lancet windows at the choir end. The north side faces Richmond Road, while the east end looks onto Crescent Road, and the south side is adjacent to the convent. The north aisle and clerestorey are adorned with lancet windows. A projecting porch with double arches on colonettes leads to a belfry topped with a miniature spire on the north side, alongside a modern single-storey extension. The interior is very plain. St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and No 39 are part of a group with Our Lady of Sion Convent and the wall extending south along Crescent Road.
Local climate
Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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