Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Church.
Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
- errant-pediment-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Mary, West and Middle Chinnock, South Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 467 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91778, -2.75918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Mary is a church with origins dating back to the 13th century, but it was completely rebuilt in the late 19th century. It is constructed from ham stone ashlar and dressings, with Welsh slates between coped gables. The layout consists of a chancel with two bays, a nave, and aisles, all featuring three bays, along with a west tower. The tower is designed in a 13th-century style, while the rest of the church reflects a 14th-century style.
The chancel is plain, with corner plinth height buttresses and corbel tables at the eaves. It features a triple lancet east window framed with attached columns and arches on the outside. On the south side, there are two 2-light windows in a 15th or 16th-century style, while the north side has a single lancet window and a 3-light mullioned window in a 17th-century style, both with labels. The north and south aisles are also plain, with a corbel table at the eaves and 2-light windows featuring 14th-century decorated tracery. There are arched doorways without porches in the east bay of the north aisle and the center bay of the south aisle.
The tower has two stages, with a round arched doorway featuring impost blocks in the west wall. Above this is a simple lancet window without a label. There is a string course on corbels, followed by pairs of plain lancet windows in the east and west walls that cut through a simple string course at the base of the gables. The roof is pitched between coped gables and topped with a small spirelet and a weathervane at the center of the ridge.
Internally, the church has a completely 19th-century character with no apparent remnants from the earlier structure, except for a hatchment board dated 1825. The open boarded roofs feature trussed rafters, and the chancel arch and arcades are designed in a 13th-century style, while the fittings are generally in a 14th-century style, all original and well-detailed, remaining unaltered since the rebuilding. The first recorded rector was John de Kirkeby in 1293, and the rebuilding likely occurred between 1880 and 1890 after the previous church was destroyed by fire.
Local climate
Church of Saint Mary receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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