Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1968. A Early C14-C15 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- worn-bastion-sedge
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Staverton
- OS grid reference
- SP 540 611
- Coordinates
- 52.24563, -1.20913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a church built primarily in the early 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of roughly squared ironstone rubble with ashlar detailing and a lead roof. The church consists of a chancel with a north chapel, a nave, a north aisle, and a west tower. The east end of the chancel has a large three-light Perpendicular window with panel tracery. There are three-light Perpendicular windows in the south wall of the chancel and an early 14th century two-light window with Y-tracery to the left of the porch. The south wall of the nave includes a large three-light Perpendicular window with a square head and panel tracery, and another early 14th century two-light window with Y-tracery to the right of the porch. The 19th century contains a window to the left of the porch. The west tower is of Perpendicular style with a crenellated parapet and large double bell openings, each of two cusped lights with a transom under a single hood. A 14th century lancet window is located west of the porch. The C14 porch has an arch with continuous hollow mouldings. The inner doorway has a chamfered round-headed arch and an old ribbed plank door. The north aisle includes a 14th century west window with 19th century tracery, and several other Perpendicular windows of three lights with panel tracery and square heads. The north chapel features a three-light Decorated window with reticulated tracery in its east wall.
Inside, a seven-bay north arcade dating from around 1300 features octagonal piers and arches with both a hollow chamfer and a sunk quadrant. The Decorated chancel arch connects to the north chapel, which has a three-bay arcade with octagonal piers and double hollow chamfered arches. A recess in the south wall of the north chapel contains a crocketed ogee arch with pinnacles, and a piscina in a cusped arch with a crocketed hood. The chancel and north aisle have 14th century roofs. A monument to Thomas Wylmer, who died in 1580, and his family, located against the north wall of the north chapel, is constructed with Ionic columns, fluted pilasters, an entablature with a metope frieze, and a brass plate depicting kneeling figures.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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