Church of St Alban is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1966. Church.

Church of St Alban

WRENN ID
twelfth-slate-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 December 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Alban, Church Lane, Withernwick
OS grid reference
TA 193 404
Coordinates
53.8468, -0.18733
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Alban is a Gothic Revival style church dating to 1855, constructed by Mallinson and Healey. The church incorporates fragments of medieval decorative material. It is built of banded pebble and reddish-brown brick with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building comprises a 4-bay nave with a south aisle, south porch, and north vestry, together with a 2-bay chancel.

The west end features buttresses with offsets, and a large 3-light pointed window within a double-chamfered surround, topped by a hoodmould with face stops and a brick relieving arch. To the west of the aisle is an ogeed lancet window, also within a double-chamfered surround. The south aisle’s gabled porch has a pointed-arched, double-chamfered opening with hollow-and-roll moulding to the head, topped by a hoodmould incorporating reused medieval face stops. It contains a pointed, studded double plank door within a moulded surround, and has stone copings to the gable. A 2-light window is located to the first bay of the aisle; other bays have 3-light windows, all within double-chamfered, 4-centred surrounds. The north side features buttresses, and two 2-light pointed windows to the two westernmost bays, set within double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. The vestry has a plank door in an ogeed surround. To the east end of the north side is a 2-light pointed window within a double-chamfered surround. The nave has ashlar copings, and a twin-light, gabled bell turret ascends from the east apex. The chancel incorporates buttresses, a plank priest's door in an ogeed surround, and two 2-light pointed windows within double-chamfered surrounds. The east end has a similar 3-light window under a hoodmould with reused face stops, topped with a cross at the apex.

Inside, a 4-bay arcade features double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases. A double-chamfered, pointed chancel arch is present with octagonal responds, moulded capitals and bases. An octagonal font sits upon a shaft, and a neoclassical wall tablet commemorates Matthew Topham, who died in 1823. Fragments of medieval zigzag decoration can be seen in the outer north side wall towards the west end and within the south porch.

Local climate

Church of St Alban receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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