Tower of Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1960. A 1753 Tower.
Tower of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- low-chamber-sedge
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1960
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower of Church of St Mary, Church Lane, Berkeley
- OS grid reference
- ST 684 990
- Coordinates
- 51.68969, -2.45769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower of the Church of St. Mary is a free-standing church tower built in 1753, which replaced a 15th-century tower on the site. It is constructed of ashlar stone and sits on the plinth of the original tower, which likely formed part of an abbey church. The tower is designed in the Gothic Survival Perpendicular style and consists of three stages with offsets and diagonal buttresses. Each face features two large pointed arch openings per stage, all of which are blind except for the first stage on the west side. This first stage is subdivided into four arched panels, with slit openings on the second stage and louvred belfry openings on the third stage. A clock face is located on the west side of the second stage. The corners of the tower are adorned with panelled square pinnacles topped with finials, and there is an openwork battlemented parapet between them. Access to the tower is through a central pointed arch door on the south side, which is reached by two stone steps.
Local climate
Tower of Church of St Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Ghosley Monument,About 6m East-South-East of Watts Monument in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin
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- Gastrell Monument,About 12.5m North of Tayler Monument in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Hopkins Monument,About 0.5m West of Gastrell Monument in Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Virgin
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