Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
veiled-steeple-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
York
Constituency
York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Andrew, Church Lane, Bishopthorpe
OS grid reference
SE 595 478
Coordinates
53.92373, -1.09539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew, built between 1898 and 1902 by C Hodgson Fowler, is a Gothic Revival church located on Church Lane in Bishopthorpe. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a plain tile roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a south aisle, and a north vestry.

The tower is three stages high, embattled, and supported by diagonal buttresses with offsets. Each side of the tower has two-light bell openings under hood-moulds. The south porch has a pointed archway decorated with fleurons above the doorway, which is framed by a roll-moulding architrave. The nave is four bays long, with buttresses featuring offsets for each bay. The aisles have straight, trefoil-headed two-light windows under hood-moulds, while the clerestory has similar three-light windows. The chancel, which is two bays long, has straight-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery in the south aisle and a clerestory window matching that of the nave. The east end of the south aisle features a three-light window with Perpendicular tracery. The north vestry includes three-light mullion windows, and the east window of the church is a five-light window with Perpendicular tracery at its head.

Inside, the church has octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches leading to the nave, and the chancel is supported by clustered columns.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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