Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II* listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1966. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Cuthbert

WRENN ID
ruined-gravel-mist
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 June 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Cuthbert, Front Street, Burton Fleming
OS grid reference
TA 083 723
Coordinates
54.13576, -0.34317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II* listed building located in Burton Fleming. It features a 12th-century arcade and chancel, with an early 13th-century west tower. The nave, south porch, and chancel were extensively remodeled in the 17th and 18th centuries. The church is constructed from ashlar, brick, and cobbles, and has plain tiled roofs.

The west tower is four bays, and the chancel is two bays. The south aisle of the nave was demolished, and the arcade was blocked in the 18th century. The south doorway includes reset 12th-century jambs with two orders of attached columns featuring water-leaf capitals. The left abacus was recut in the late 14th century. There are three windows with pointed brick heads; two are east of the south door with late 20th-century glazing, and one to the west has late 18th-century Gothick iron glazing bars. A small lancet window at a higher level to the east is in a plain brick surround with a stone keyblock. The church also features a bronze sundial, a coped brick parapet, and plain close verges.

The chancel has a chamfered plinth and a two-light mullioned square-headed window, with a rendered brick parapet and stone coping on the south side. The east window is a three-light design with Perpendicular tracery and a raised coped gable. The west tower consists of four stages, with a hollow-chamfered plinth on the west face that returns slightly to the north and south. It has massive buttresses at the north-east and south-east angles, the latter being cut back. The tower features a two-light west window with Decorated tracery, two string courses, and an offset at the belfry floor level. The belfry has lancets enriched with balls, chevrons, and cusping, and a coped parapet that conceals a low pitch roof.

Inside, there is an early 13th-century double-chamfered tower arch under a hood mould with roundel stops. The south arcade and east respond are partly obscured, featuring round piers and capitals with scallops and interlace under octagonal abaci that support round-headed arches of two orders; the inner arch has nailhead ornament, while the outer has a narrow chamfer. The pointed chancel arch, which has been rebuilt, retains 12th-century jambs of two chamfered orders and a nook shaft with a scallop capital. A 12th-century tub font on a circular pillar and base features four carved heads. The Royal Arms of 1724 are displayed over the south door.

Local climate

Church of St Cuthbert receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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