Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- winter-plaster-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Main Street, Foston
- OS grid reference
- TA 100 558
- Coordinates
- 53.98673, -0.32292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located in Foston. The church features a 12th-century nave, an early 13th-century chancel, and a late 14th-century west tower. It is constructed of ashlar stone with roughcast on the nave and chancel, topped by a graduated slate roof. The west tower consists of three stages, with a moulded plinth, string courses, and diagonal buttresses. It has 2-light belfry openings adorned with cusped tracery beneath pointed heads and hood-moulds, and is capped with a battlemented parapet.
The west door is boarded and set in a pointed opening with continuous hollow mouldings. The west window has three lights with 20th-century replacement mullions, cusped tracery, and a pointed head under a hood-mould. The nave features a three-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery to the west, while the other windows are round-headed in the centre and east. The clerestory includes 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under elliptical heads. The south door has a continuous chamfer and a pointed head, and the chancel has a 2-light pointed window to the west with Geometrical tracery, along with square-headed windows featuring Perpendicular tracery. There is a pointed priest's door with continuous chamfer, and the east window has four lights with Perpendicular tracery under a pointed head and hood-mould, with plain close verges.
Inside, the late 14th-century tower arch consists of three hollow-chamfered orders with scalloped capitals cut back to the east. The early 13th-century north nave arcade is supported by circular piers and abaci, featuring double-chamfered pointed arches. In the chancel, there are three 13th-century sedilia, with the easternmost cut away by a 15th-century window, all having pointed chamfered heads and filleted hood-moulds. The nave also contains a 12th-century tub font and a defaced effigy of a knight with crossed legs at the west end.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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