Former Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1981. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Former Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
- tangled-clay-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Church of Saint Mary, Chittoe, Chippenham, Bromham, SN15 2EL
- OS grid reference
- ST 957 666
- Coordinates
- 51.39845, -2.06293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Church of Saint Mary is a 19th-century Anglican parish church, built in 1845 by T.H. Wyatt, which is set to be converted into a house in 1986. The structure is made of squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs, including a coped gabled bellcote at the west end. The church has a three-bay aisleless nave, a south porch, and a north transept that was added in 1870. It also includes a chancel with a north organ chamber and a south vestry attached. Designed in the Decorated Gothic style, the church has three-light windows on the east, west, and north transept sides, two-light windows on the nave, and single-light windows on the chancel sides, all adorned with hoodmoulds. The exterior is characterized by clasping buttresses, a raised plinth, and a moulded sill-course, along with a gabled south porch. The south-east vestry has gables at each end and an east door, while the north-east organ chamber is gabled and located at the angle to the chancel, with a polygonal porch attached.
Inside, the church features tall proportions with timber roofs, including arch-braced collar trusses in the nave and transept, and a boarded roof in the chancel. The chancel arch and the arch to the north transept are both moulded, as are the subsidiary arches leading to the north-east organ chamber. Most of the interior fittings have been removed, except for the stone pulpit and tiled reredos.
Local climate
Former Church of Saint Mary 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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