Catholic Church of Our Lady is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Church. 1 related planning application.
Catholic Church of Our Lady
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Catholic Church of Our Lady, Old Mill Lane, Marnhull, DT10 1JX
- OS grid reference
- ST 783 200
- Coordinates
- 50.97966, -2.31022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Catholic Church of Our Lady, built in 1832 with an extension added in 1886, is located on Old Mill Lane in Marnhull. The church is constructed from coursed, squared rubble, ashlar, and render. The nave features a Roman-tiled roof with stone slate verges and a stone coping topped with a bell-cote. The chancel has a steeply pitched gable-ended tiled roof, and there are weathered stage buttresses and lancet windows throughout. A notable gable window consists of three graduated lancets. The west porch is made of ashlar and has a stone slated roof with stone coping. The doorway is characterized by a moulded two-centred head with a returned label, and the original door has a lattice of diagonal ribs.
Inside, the church includes a moulded two-centred chancel arch with capitals, an octagonal font on an octagonal stem, and an arch in the chancel leading to an annex. There is a west gallery, a statue on a carved angel corbel in the nave, and a cinquefoiled stoop in the porch. The west door is two-centred and roll moulded, and the interior features 20th-century seating and a king-post roof in the nave.
Local climate
Catholic Church of Our Lady receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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