Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- old-transept-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Above Derwent, Cumberland, CA12 5SA
- OS grid reference
- NY 226 254
- Coordinates
- 54.61804, -3.19943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1831, with additions made in 1853, replacing a church from around 1760 that stood on the same site. It is constructed of split slate rubble and features angle buttresses, all under a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers. The church has a two-bay nave that includes a west gabled porch and an open west bellcote, along with transepts and a single-bay chancel that has a north vestry. The nave is adorned with lancet windows and triple lancet windows on the west side, while the transepts have paired lancets. The chancel features a tripartite east window. Inside, the church has an open timber roof that is consistent throughout the nave, chancel, and transepts. Notable interior elements include figurative stained glass created by H. Hughes from London in 1866, as well as white marble wall plaques commemorating Joseph Gibson of Powter Howe from 1810 and John Fisher of Jenkin Hill from 1796. There are also 19th-century commandment and pater boards, along with 20th-century furnishings and fittings.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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