Wythburn Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Parish church.

Wythburn Church

WRENN ID
graven-parapet-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Parish church
Address
Wythburn Church, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 324 135
Coordinates
54.51299, -3.04508
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wythburn Church is a parish church built in 1640 on the site of an earlier chapel, with restorations in 1740 and an addition in 1872. The church features painted rendered walls on projecting plinth stones, with slate rubble additions, all beneath graduated greenslate roofs. It has a three-bay nave with an open bellcote at the west end and a slightly higher apse from 1872, along with a south vestry. The entrance has a 20th-century studded plank door, and there are 20th-century two-light casement windows set within plain reveals. The west window has three lancets, while the vestry and apse contain narrow round-headed windows. Inside, the church boasts an open timber roof supported by 17th-century trusses. The west window features stained glass from 1888, with additional stained glass in the apse created by Henry Holiday in 1892 and Hugh Arnold in 1906. The furnishings and fittings date from the late 19th century.

Local climate

Wythburn Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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