Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. A {} Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- lost-mortar-pearl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- {}
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Charlynch Hill, Spaxton
- OS grid reference
- ST 238 378
- Coordinates
- 51.13443, -3.08983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is an Anglican parish church that is now deconsecrated. It dates from the 11th, 13th, and 15th centuries, with the tower likely built in 1867 and restored in 1887. The church is constructed from rubble, featuring coped verges and slate roofs. It includes a nave with a south porch, a transeptal south chapel, a chancel with a vestry and organ chamber, and a west tower.
The three-stage tower has an octagonal stair turret, diagonal buttresses, a crenellated parapet, and bell-chamber windows. The nave features a late Norman south doorway and a gabled porch, along with a two-light square-headed Decorated window to the left and a projecting transept chapel with a three-light square-headed window to the right. The chancel has a two-light Decorated window on the south side and a reticulated window on the east.
Inside, the church has a plastered interior with a 15th-century moulded plaster ceiling, Norman responds to the 13th-century chancel arch, and traces of a rood stair. There is also 15th-century stained glass in the east window of the transept, a Norman font, and Laudian transept railings that were previously the altar rails. The church contains numerous marble memorials from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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