Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Parish church.

Parish Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
worn-cloister-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Parish church
Address
Parish Church of St Mary, Wareham Road, East Stoke
OS grid reference
SY 872 870
Coordinates
50.68297, -2.18181
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Mary is a church built in 1828, designed by architect T E Owen, with a chancel and organ chamber added in 1885. The church features rubble stone walls, and the nave has a low-pitched slate roof adorned with crested ridge tiles, while the chancel and organ chamber have tiled roofs. The structure includes a nave, chancel, organ chamber on the south side, and a west tower, with a small shallow transept located south of the tower.

The tower consists of three stages, complete with battlements and angle buttresses. It has plain lancet windows in the belfry and a moulded string course beneath it. The centre stage of the tower features a two-light window with Y-tracery and wide splayed jambs. Below this, there is a pointed arched entrance doorway located in the west wall. The north and south walls of the nave are punctuated by two-light windows similar to those in the tower, with buttresses positioned between them. The east wall of the chancel showcases a three-light window with Perpendicular style tracery.

Inside, the church has a low-pitched tie-beam roof supported by braces and king-posts. The chancel arch is adorned with carved caps, and there is a 13th-century font, which is octagonal on a circular pedestal and features detached shafts, originating from the old church. Most other fittings date from the 19th century, and there are a few early 19th-century wall monuments present.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Mary receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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