Church of the Assumption and St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of the Assumption and St Mary
- WRENN ID
- strange-beam-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Assumption and St Mary, Longbridge Deverill, BA12 7EF
- OS grid reference
- ST 867 402
- Coordinates
- 51.16157, -2.19033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Assumption and St Mary is an Anglican parish church located in Longbridge Deverill, which is now redundant. It was rebuilt in 1843 by Chapman and Sons. The church is constructed of dressed limestone with a Welsh slate roof and features an ashlar bellcote. The layout includes a nave, chancel, west entrance, and bellcote, designed in a pre-archaeological Gothic style.
The west end has a pointed chamfered doorway with a planked door and a hoodmould, above which is a lancet window also with a hoodmould. The exterior is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a coped verge. The gabled bellcote has one pointed opening. On the south side of the nave, there are three chamfered pointed windows with hoodmoulds, while the chancel features two similar windows and buttresses with offsets. The east end has diagonal buttresses and a pointed window with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. The north side mirrors the south with similar windows, all of which are diamond-leaded. The building has dentilled eaves cornices, coped verges with kneelers, and cross finials.
Inside, the church has a three-bay nave and a two-bay chancel, with a plain chamfered pointed chancel arch. There is a vestibule and stairs leading to a gallery at the west end. The walls are plain plastered, and the roof features tie-beam trusses. Since the church was made redundant in the 1980s, all fittings have been removed, including a 16th-century chest tomb that is now located in the Bath chapel at the Church of St Peter and St Paul. Some wall tablets were retained during a survey in June 1985, including an oval tablet with carved drapery and crest for Rachel Coker, who died in 1699, a classical marble tablet with an urn for William Morse, who died in 1793, and a Gothic-style tablet for Mary Clifford, who also died in 1793. The church was acquired for conversion into a dwelling in June 1985.
Local climate
Church of the Assumption and St Mary receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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