St Mary’s Church Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Church room. 2 related planning applications.
St Mary’s Church Centre
- WRENN ID
- lesser-stair-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Church room
- Address
- St Mary’s Church Centre, Church Street, Chard, Chard Town, TA20 2DP
- OS grid reference
- ST 322 082
- Coordinates
- 50.86936, -2.964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary’s Church Centre, originally known as the Church Room, is a church building dated 1827, with restorations completed in 1896 and 1923, as indicated by a shield in the gable and above the west entrance. The structure is built of limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone dressings and features a crested slate roof.
The Church Street facade is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The ground floor includes two-light leaded windows with stone mullions for each light, featuring ogee heads and set beneath labelled hoodmoulds. On the first floor, there are three two-light mullioned leaded windows, each light having a trefoil head, all under a four-centred arch hoodmould within full dormers. A metal fire escape is located to the right of the first floor. The left return, or east front, has a similar window in the centre.
The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have been altered.
Local climate
St Mary’s Church Centre receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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