Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- winter-chancel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Road, Workington
- OS grid reference
- NX 994 257
- Coordinates
- 54.61642, -3.55895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1885 on a medieval site, with a tower added between 1905 and 1907. It is constructed from quarry-faced pink St Bees sandstone, featuring calciferous sandstone quoins and red sandstone dressings. The roof is made of graduated Welsh slate and has coped gables topped with a cross finial. The church has a six-bay nave, a square three-storey west tower, and a four-bay chancel that includes a north vestry.
The tower and porch feature a roll-moulded west doorway, two-light Tudor-style windows on the ground floor, and three-light Tudor bell openings. The parapet is corbelled and battlemented, with angle water spouts. Both the nave and chancel are adorned with Y-tracery windows. Inside the porch, there is a 14th-century octagonal font with a later incised date of 1634, as well as the Royal Arms dated 1810. The reused 12th-century tower arch is notable, and the nave contains two medieval graveslabs set into the north wall. The church features an open timber roof and has late 19th-century and early 20th-century stained glass. Additionally, there is a fragment of a 10th-century cross.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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