Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
woven-bastion-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Manor Road, BS16 2HX
OS grid reference
ST 632 760
Coordinates
51.48178, -2.5301
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a church constructed in 1821. An extension to the chancel and a north aisle were added around 1860. The building is constructed of snecked Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and an ashlar broach spire, all covered by a tiled roof. It is designed in the Perpendicular Gothic Revival style.

The church includes a curved apse with seven pointed windows and chamfered reveals, with ashlar eaves and decorative ridges. The north aisle is four bays wide, divided by buttresses, and features five-light windows with plate tracery. A doorway has been brought forward between the buttresses in the west end of the aisle, and one window is half blocked. A vestry is linked at the east end, with three-light windows, an impost band, and a small, seven-foil rose window. The south side of the nave has three-light windows with four-centred arches, within similar ashlar relieving arches on pilasters.

The two-stage tower is flanked by a low, slate-roofed narthex. It features a deeply weathered string, cornice, and diagonal buttresses; a four-centred arched doorway with a hood; quatrefoil-headed windows on the north and south sides; narrow windows to the belfry with stone louvres and sunken panels; and an ashlar weathering course which leads back into a steep octagonal spire with louvred lucarnes near the bottom and smaller ones near the top, topped with a weather vane and cock.

Inside, the two-bay chancel is divided by open arches on each side, featuring a round respond to the east, coupled shafts in the middle, and a thick shaft at the nave end, all with stiff-leaf capitals. A seven-light window incorporates colonnettes. The four-bay nave arcade ends with an inverted conical corbel at the west end and has pointed arches, round piers with capitals, and hoods with floral stops. An organ is raised above the west door, and traces remain of a previous west gallery.

Local climate

Church of St Mary receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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