Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. Church.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
over-doorway-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 October 1969
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Main Street, Westerdale, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 664 058
Coordinates
54.4433, -0.97642
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church is a church built in 1838, with extensions and alterations made in 1875 by W. Falkenbridge, located on a medieval site. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and features a plinth and quoins. It has a graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone ridge and copings, a cast iron cross finial, and spike finials at the corners of the nave.

The church includes a west tower and nave with an extruded south porch, as well as a short chancel with a north aisle and a south porch-vestry. The parts built in 1838 are designed in the Lancet style, while the chancel is in the Geometrical style. The two-stage tower has a battlemented parapet, bands, and stepped diagonal buttresses. It features lancets at all levels, including bell openings, with the upper stage's openings being very narrow. The west face displays a fragment of a 12th-century arch above a segmental plaque dated 1838. The nave has three large windows on both the north and south sides, featuring Y-tracery, alternate-block jambs, and hoodmoulds. The later porch has a two-centred arch and hoodmould. The chancel is highlighted by a large traceried east window, with smaller windows on the sides.

Inside, there are three medieval grave covers and cross fragments located in the porch. The nave features an 1838 strutted king post roof, while the chancel has an arch-braced roof. The nave serves as a plain preaching box. Notable stained glass in the south-east nave window depicts parables from the Gospel of St. Matthew, signed and dated HH 1957. On the outside of the nave's south wall, there is a partly-eroded memorial slab for Jane Duck, who died in 1740 and contributed funds to the village school.

Local climate

Christ Church receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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