Church of St Mark and Gate-Piers and Wall Immediately East is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Church.
Church of St Mark and Gate-Piers and Wall Immediately East
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pedestal-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mark and Gate-Piers and Wall Immediately East, Bell Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 017 788
- Coordinates
- 50.60932, -1.97672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mark, along with the gate-piers and wall immediately to the east, was built between 1869 and 1870 by architects Hicks and Crickmay. It features walls and a roof made of Purbeck Stone. The church consists of a nave and chancel, a north chapel and organ chamber, and a south porch that includes a modern vestry on the west side. An open bell-cote is positioned over the chancel arch. The design is simple Gothic, characterized by paired lancet windows in the nave, triple lancets in the east wall, and five grouped lancets in the west wall. Inside, the walls are plastered, and there are pine scissor-braced roof trusses. The stone font, which dates back to 1663, comes from the Parish Church and is set on a 19th-century base. The boundary wall is also made of Purbeck Stone and features simple stone gate piers along with modern iron gates.
Local climate
Church of St Mark and Gate-Piers and Wall Immediately East receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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