Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- final-window-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Way, East Claydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 255
- Coordinates
- 51.92343, -0.92527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a parish church that features a transitional south chapel, a 14th-century chancel, and a west tower dating from the 15th to 16th centuries, along with alterations to the nave. The church also includes a 19th-century north aisle, vestry, and south porch. It underwent significant restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1871. The building is constructed of rubble stone, with large coursed blocks used for the tower and chancel. The nave has a lead roof, while the rest of the church is tiled.
The tower, which has three stages, is supported by diagonal buttresses and features a battlemented parapet and paired lights in the bell chamber. The west side includes a moulded four-centred arch leading to the door and a three-light cusped window with a four-centred head. The second stage on the north side has a single light. The nave has a plain parapet, a lancet window on the west side of the north, a two-light window with Y tracery on the south side, and a clerestory with two three-light windows on the south. The south door has a two-centred chamfered arch and a gabled timber porch. The south chapel contains lancet windows, with one on the west and two on the south and east. The north aisle features three bays of two-light windows with Y tracery and a re-used 16th-century doorway with a four-centred arch and carved spandrels. The chancel has restored Decorated windows, including two two-light windows on the south, one on the north, and a three-light window on the east.
Inside, there is a double chamfered tower arch and a 19th-century north arcade with chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The south arcade has one transitional arch, square cut with outer zig-zag moulding and moulded imposts. To the east of this arch is a 15th-century arched opening with carved head stops on the hoodmould. The south chapel includes a 13th-century piscina and steps leading to a rood-loft. The nave roof retains original moulded purlins and a ridge. The chancel arch is steeply pointed and double chamfered, with the inner order resting on corbels adorned with carved winged figures. The chancel also features a two-light traceried window leading to the vestry and a 19th-century piscina.
Fittings include a much-restored 15th-century octagonal font, a 17th-century communion table in the south chapel, glass in the east window dating from 1887, and other 19th-century fittings. There is also an 18th-century marble wall monument in the nave, flanked by Doric pilasters and side scrolls, topped with a crest of urns and a shield.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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