Church of St Gregory is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1953. Church.

Church of St Gregory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1953
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Gregory, Church Lane, Cropton, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 756 892
Coordinates
54.29366, -0.8395
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Gregory is a church that was rebuilt in 1844 after a fire, designed by J B and W Atkinson. It is constructed from squared limestone with a tooled plinth, tooled dressings, and a slate roof. The church features a west bellcote, a 5-bay nave, and a north vestry, along with an apsidal chancel.

At the west end, there is a central offset buttress flanked by round-headed windows set in quoined surrounds with coved hoodmoulds. The buttress extends to full height and supports the base of the gabled bellcote. The bellcote has twin round-arched, roll-moulded openings beneath coved hoodmoulds, and a central shaft with a scalloped capital. The gable apex contains a chevron-edged oculus that encloses a recessed quatrefoil.

The nave features a south door located in a slightly projecting, pent-roofed porch, with double board doors beneath a round, roll-moulded arch on shafts with scalloped capitals, and a chamfered hoodmould. There is a single window to the west and three to the east, similar to those at the west end, with a chamfered eaves course. On the north side, a gabled vestry projects from the east end bay, with the other bays containing similar windows, two of which are separated by a full-height offset buttress. The east half-hexagonal apse has a window on each side and a half-hexagonal pointed roof. The north vestry has a single window, and a chimney stack rises at the base of the nave roof behind the vestry. The gables are coped and feature a cross at the west end.

Inside, there is a 12th-century font on a pedestal with nailhead moulding around the base. There is also a wall tablet dedicated to Captain George Lee (died 1794), made of stone with relief carving and incised lettering highlighted in black.

Local climate

Church of St Gregory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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