Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Chapel.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- pitched-joist-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Waterhouses, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 103 502
- Coordinates
- 53.04904, -1.84717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a chapel-of-ease built in 1839. It is constructed from coursed and squared limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a plain tile roof with coped verges. The church has a four-bay nave with a south porch, a single-bay chancel, and a north-west vestry. The pointed windows include an east window with Y-tracery. The gabled south porch has a pointed door and a niche above that contains a statuette of the Virgin. The building also features coved eaves and a weatherboarded bellcote with a hipped roof.
Inside, there is a pointed chancel arch that springs from moulded imposts, and a west gallery supported by cylindrical cast iron columns with an arcaded rail. The ceilings are plastered, and the beams are cased. Notable fittings include an octagonal stone font with quatrefoil side panels that contain fleurons, a semi-octagonal wooden pulpit, and a heavily decorated 17th-century communion rail, with a piece of the same rail displayed on the south wall.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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