Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1986. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- tall-corridor-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Lane, Strensall with Towthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SE 629 607
- Coordinates
- 54.03894, -1.0396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a church built between 1865 and 1866, with a late 20th-century addition, designed by J B and W Atkinson. It is constructed from sandstone and Westmorland slate and features a west tower, a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a two-bay chancel that includes a north vestry and a 20th-century parish room. The church is designed in the Geometric style. The three-stage tower has angle buttresses, and the west front includes a two-light window with a trefoil window and a relieving arch above it. Each face of the tower has twin belfry windows, and there is a spire atop the tower. The south porch features a pointed doorway of a single order on shafted responds. The nave has two-light windows, while the chancel has single-light windows and a three-light window at the east end. There are no notable internal features, and the 20th-century extension is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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