Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Church.
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lancet-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Treeton Road, Howden
- OS grid reference
- SE 745 279
- Coordinates
- 53.74268, -0.87121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart is a church built between 1850 and 1852 by J A Hansom. It is constructed of white brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a six-bay aisled nave, a western bellcote, and an apsidal chancel. The gabled west front includes a trefoil-headed double-leaf door set in a pointed arch, supported by round shafts with plain capitals. This door is flanked by trefoil-cusped single-light windows, with two tall trefoil-cusped lancets and a trefoil above.
To the left of the entrance is an octagonal two-stage staircase turret with narrow square-headed windows, a string course between the stages, a band of trefoils at the top, and a pyramidal roof. To the right, there is a stepped buttress with a gablet. The west windows of the aisles feature two-light trefoil-cusped windows with quatrefoils in the spandrels. The aisle bays are defined by stepped buttresses with gablets, and there are paired trefoil-headed lancets in the aisles. The clerestory has paired quatrefoils, except for a single one in the westernmost bay. The east window of the south aisle has three stepped trefoil-cusped lights with quatrefoils above, while the east window of the north aisle is obscured by the presbytery. The chancel has a string course and five trefoil-cusped windows.
Inside, the church features arcades of pointed arches supported by octagonal piers. The church is aligned north-south, so the points mentioned in the description refer to ecclesiastical orientation rather than cardinal directions.
Local climate
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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