Church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1978. Church.
Church of St Giles
- WRENN ID
- tired-vestry-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1978
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Giles, Church Street, Copmanthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SE 565 468
- Coordinates
- 53.91497, -1.141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Giles is a church that dates back to the 12th century and has undergone significant alterations, including a chancel added in 1889 and 20th-century additions such as a west porch. It is constructed from magnesian limestone ashlar, with some areas rendered and colourwashed, and features a Welsh slate roof. The structure includes a west porch, nave, and chancel that are unified, along with 20th-century parish rooms and an outshut on the north side.
The porch houses a 12th-century doorway with a chamfered surround and a single nook shaft with scalloped capitals that support an arch with ball moulding. A 12th-century bell-turret is present, featuring twin round-arched openings. On the south side of the nave and chancel, there is a buttress with offsets. The windows are mainly single round-headed types in chamfered surrounds, with those in the nave set under recut hood-moulds; the westernmost window has single nook shafts supporting a roll moulding. Additionally, there is one slit window. On the north side, there are two similar round-headed windows, but most are obscured by the outshut and parish rooms. The east end is believed to be a 12th-century structure that was reconstructed at the end of the 19th century, featuring a group of three stepped round-arched windows in a chamfered surround under a hood-mould.
Inside, the east window features glass by Kempe, dating to around 1889.
Local climate
Church of St Giles 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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