Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1972. A Victorian Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
tangled-nave-tarn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1972
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of St Mary, Itchen Stoke and Ovington, Winchester
OS grid reference
SU 559 324
Coordinates
51.08839, -1.20305
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1866 by Henry Conybeare for Rev Charles Conybeare. It is constructed from brown and grey rubble stone with limestone dressings and has a slate roof. The church is designed in a 13th-century French style and consists of a single cell with a polygonal, gabled apse. There is a north vestry and a lean-to porch across the west front. The apse gables feature 2-light bar tracery windows, while the sides of the church have four sets of three tall lancet windows separated by offset buttresses. The pointed west door has granite shafts, and the porch is stone roofed, above which is a large wheel-window. The steep roof is adorned with a diaper pattern of slates, iron cresting, and an east gable bellcote.

Inside, there is a vaulted lobby with a marble-shafted doorway. The church is divided into bays by wall columns, with diaper work in plaster below the windows, blank arcading on the west wall, and a tall, boarded trussed rafter roof. The apse is semi-octagonal and features maze pavement, moulded ribs, and wall columns. The furnishings are contemporary with the font made of coloured enamel gilt bronze and black Californian marble. There is also a brass memorial to Mrs Batmanson, dating from around 1500, which has been removed from the old church and is now in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund.

Local climate

Church of St Mary receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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