Church of St Mary (Rc) and Gates, Gate Piers and Railings to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1983. Church.

Church of St Mary (Rc) and Gates, Gate Piers and Railings to Churchyard

WRENN ID
seventh-bronze-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1983
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary (Rc) and Gates, Gate Piers and Railings to Churchyard, Lower High Street, Chipping Campden
OS grid reference
SP 148 390
Coordinates
52.04947, -1.78474
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic) was built in 1891 in a Perpendicular style by W Lunn of Malvern. It is constructed from cut and dressed rubble with a Cotswold stone roof. The church features an aisled cruciform plan and has a small saddleback bell tower located in the north-west angle of the south transept. The exterior includes stepped buttresses, moulded copings, and four clerestory windows along with aisle west windows that have traceried transoms. Other windows are designed in a more conventional Perpendicular style. The complex five-light west window has low transoms and a stilted label above a four-centre arch-headed doorway, which is adorned with carvings within a hollow-chamfered inner order and decorative ironwork on the door. In the gable, there is a tripartite heavily traceried niche that contains a statue of the Virgin, topped with a crocketted canopy. The belfry stage of the tower features a different style of tracery in its flat-headed openings, and there is a circular chimney to the south of the chancel.

Inside, the church has a four-bay aisled nave with narrow chapels at the east ends of the aisles. The chancel arch is supported by three heavy ribs on corbels, and there are rere-arches and inner windows. The transepts have contemporary screens, and there is an altar-railing and possibly a reredos that are also contemporary. A window in the south transept was created by Paul Woodroffe in 1909. The churchyard is enclosed to the south and west by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys stanchions set on dwarf rubble walls. The west side features ashlar gate piers with crested capping and wrought-iron gates.

Local climate

Church of St Mary (Rc) and Gates, Gate Piers and Railings to Churchyard receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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