Church of St Mary 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 Mary

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 December 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mary, Main Street, Ellerton
OS grid reference
SE 701 398
Coordinates
53.85016, -0.93512
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building constructed between 1846 and 1848 by architect J L Pearson. It is built from ashlar stone and features a Westmorland slate roof. The church has a four-bay nave with a west bellcote and a gabled south porch, as well as a single-bay chancel that includes a vestry to the north. Designed in the Decorated style, it has a chamfered plinth and a continuous chamfered sill string course.

At the west end, there is a central stepped buttress flanked by traceried lancet windows set on a continuous angled string course, with diagonal buttresses at the corners. The bellcote is diamond set and square, featuring two-light pointed openings on round shafts topped with a pyramidal stone roof. The nave includes a pointed doorway supported by octagonal responds, with angle buttresses leading to the porch. The pointed two-light windows have quatrefoil and mouchette tracery, also flanked by stepped buttresses.

The chancel features a pointed priest's door with paired traceried lancets to the right on the south side. The vestry has paired lancets on the east side, and there are paired traceried lancets in the east bay of the north wall of the chancel. The east elevation showcases a pointed three-light window with reticulated tracery. All openings are below hoodmoulds, and the gables are adorned with stone copings on gableted kneelers, with ridge crosses on the east gables. The church was derelict at the time of the resurvey, and the interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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