Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the North Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Mark

WRENN ID
tilted-pedestal-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Lincolnshire
Constituency
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme MP: Lee Pitcher (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Mark, Church Street, Amcotts, DN17 4AL
OS grid reference
SE 855 141
Coordinates
53.61672, -0.70855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mark is a parish church built in 1853. It features rock-faced ashlar with rusticated and tooled ashlar dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The building includes a west tower with an octagonal stair turret at the southeast angle, a 4-bay nave with a south porch, and a 2-bay chancel with an adjoining vestry on the north side. The church has a chamfered plinth and a two-stage tower with diagonal buttresses that have offsets. The tall first stage of the tower has a pointed 2-light Y-traceried west window with a hoodmould, and a similar window above it. There is a shouldered-arched door to the stair turret with a single-light window above. A moulded string course runs around the tower, which features banded angle shafts, single lancets with hoodmoulds and wooden louvres in the belfry, a clock face on the west side, and a dentilled moulded eaves cornice. The spire is splay-footed and octagonal, topped with a plain finial and weathercock.

The nave has diagonal buttresses and additional buttresses between the bays, with lancet windows that also have hoodmoulds. The porch has a pointed chamfered outer arch with a hoodmould, flanked by buttresses, and a pointed chamfered inner arch. The chancel features diagonal buttresses, lancet windows with hoodmoulds, and a pointed 3-light east window with stepped lancets and a hoodmould, along with a small pointed oval light above. All the windows have rock-faced rusticated jambs, tooled mullions, and reveals. The church has dentilled eaves cornices and coped gables throughout, with cross finials on the nave and porch.

Inside, there are pointed double-chamfered arches for the tower and chancel, featuring a corbelled inner order and a continuous outer chamfer. The nave roof is a 4-bay single hammer-beam design with corbelled wall posts, moulded arch braces, and slender timbers. There is also a polygonal font with a moulded shaft.

Local climate

Church of St Mark 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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