Church of Saint Swithin is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Church.
Church of Saint Swithin
- WRENN ID
- slow-trefoil-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Swithin, Back Lane, Sproatley
- OS grid reference
- TA 194 343
- Coordinates
- 53.79216, -0.18773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Swithin is a church built between 1814 and 1820, with a rebuild in 1886 by Smith and Brodrick. It is constructed of grey brick with stone dressings and features a graduated slate roof, showcasing the Gothic Revival style. The building includes a three-stage west tower, a three-bay aisled nave with a north porch, and a two-bay chancel with a north vestry.
The west tower has a plinth and angle buttresses with offsets, along with chamfered strings at each stage. The first and second stages contain trefoil-headed lancets, and there is a clock on the second stage. The belfry features a two-light square-headed window with cusped tracery beneath a hood-mould, and the tower is topped with a crenellated parapet adorned with crocketed corner finials.
The nave has a chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets, and it is punctuated by two three-light square-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. The south porch includes a segmental-headed door under a hood-mould, with blank tracery in the apex of the coped gable. The chancel is highlighted by a two-light pointed window with Perpendicular tracery under a hood-mould with foliate stops, and a prominent four-light east window with similar tracery and hood-mould featuring monarch stops. The chancel is capped with a raised coped gable and a cross finial on shaped kneelers.
Local climate
Church of Saint Swithin 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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