Church of Saint Paul is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. A C13 - early C14 Church. 5 related planning applications.
Church of Saint Paul
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Paul, Hull Road A1079, Kexby, YO41 5LA
- OS grid reference
- SE 700 510
- Coordinates
- 53.95069, -0.93396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Paul is a Grade II listed church built in 1852 by F.C. Penrose for Lord Wenlock. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a red plain tile roof, designed in the Gothic Revival style reminiscent of the late 13th to early 14th centuries. The church has a three-bay nave, an octagonal north-west tower, a west porch, a north vestry, and a single-bay chancel.
The tower is three stages high, with a plinth and a square base that tapers to an octagonal shaft and spire. It includes lancet and slit windows, string courses on the first and second stages, and cusped bell openings on the third stage, along with gargoyles and a quatrefoil band. The spire is topped with a lead weathervane. The west entrance features a pointed plank doorway set in a chamfered surround beneath a gabled porch with naturalistically-carved brackets. Above this doorway is a two-light window with reticulated-style tracery under a hoodmould.
On the nave's south side, there are three two-light windows with trefoil heads, all under hoodmoulds. The north side has a plinth, with the vestry in the first bay featuring two trefoiled lancets. The nave also has two trefoiled lancets. The chancel has a plinth and a trefoiled lancet on the south facade, while the east window consists of three lights with reticulated tracery under a hoodmould.
Inside, the nave boasts a hammer-beam roof, and the chancel has a panelled ceiling. The chancel arch is double-chamfered with keeled responds, and there is a double-chamfered two-bay arcade between the nave and vestry supported by a cylindrical pier. An octagonal font is also present.
Local climate
Church of Saint Paul receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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