Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- burning-step-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Main Street, Rufforth with Knapton
- OS grid reference
- SE 527 514
- Coordinates
- 53.95684, -1.19735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a church built between 1894 and 1895 by architects J Demaine and W Brierley, incorporating elements from an earlier church on the same site. It is constructed of ashlar stone with slate and leaded roofs and features a 4-bay nave, a south porch and aisle, a south tower, and a single-bay chancel, all designed in the Victorian Gothic style.
The west front includes a 3-light traceried pointed window flanked by buttresses. To the right is the return wall of the south porch, which is mostly blind except for one square-headed window. The south front of the nave has a round-arched doorway leading to the porch, adorned with foliate decoration on the arch and an elaborate empty statue niche above. The aisle features 2- and 3-light square-headed windows in the Perpendicular style. On the north side of the nave, there are 2-light pointed traceried windows, except for a single-light square-headed window in the east bay.
The tower is a massive plain structure with a staircase turret on the west side. The south facade retains an original 12th-century round-arched doorway, accompanied by a 3-light square-headed window to the right and a small staircase window above to the left. A clock beneath an ogee hood interrupts the 2-light belfry opening, which is repeated on each face of the tower. A cornice band around the tower reads, "To the glory of God and in pious memory of George Middlewood of Rufforth Anno Domini 1894. Lord have loved the habitation of They House, and the place where They Honour dwelleth." The tower also features a squat recessed spire.
In the chancel, there is a 2-light traceried pointed window on the south and a 3-light round-arched traceried window on the north. The east front showcases a 5-light traceried pointed window flanked by buttresses. Inside, the north aisle includes an original Y-tracery window incorporated into the west wall and a 3-light Perpendicular window incorporated into the east wall.
Local climate
Church of All Saints 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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