Church of St Catherine is a Grade I listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1968. Church.
Church of St Catherine
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Catherine, Arram Road, Leconfield
- OS grid reference
- TA 015 437
- Coordinates
- 53.88004, -0.45728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Catherine is a Grade I listed building located on Arram Road in Leconfield. The church features a nave that dates back to the 12th century or earlier, with early 13th-century aisles that were raised in the 14th century. The chancel was built in the late 13th century, while the west tower and south porch were added in the 17th century, with a date stone indicating the porch's construction in 1684.
The church is constructed from ashlar, red brick, coursed limestone rubble, and has cast-tile roofs. The west tower has a moulded brick plinth and stone quoins, with a single continuous stage that includes segmental-headed belfry openings fitted with louvres, topped by a crenellated parapet. The south aisle features a moulded plinth and buttresses with offsets, along with three 3-light square-headed windows that have cusped ogee tracery beneath hoodmoulds. The gables are coped and topped with cross finials. The west wall of the south aisle contains the remains of a small segmental-headed pre-Conquest window, which has been blocked. There is also a segmental-headed south door with continuous roll mouldings.
The south porch has a brick plinth and a segmental-headed door with a chamfered arch resting on rubbed brick imposts and square reveals, along with a raised coped gable. The chancel includes two 2-light windows featuring geometrical tracery and a pointed priests' door with continuous mouldings beneath a hoodmould adorned with face-masks. The east window is composed of three stepped lancets, and the gable is coped.
Inside, the church has north and south arcades with double-chamfered pointed arches; the north arcade rests on round abaci, while the south arcade is supported by octagonal abaci and octagonal piers throughout. The double-chamfered pointed chancel arch sits on moulded corbels that have carved faces. An early 17th-century pulpit is positioned on an octagonal pier, featuring blank round-headed arches with fan ornament on either side. The windows in the north aisle and chancel still retain small fragments of 14th- and 15th-century stained glass, with heraldic designs in the chancel and figures in the north aisle.
Local climate
Church of St Catherine receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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