Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- outer-flagstone-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Bransdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 620 984
- Coordinates
- 54.37772, -1.04641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a church built around 1800, featuring a barrel-vaulted roof added in 1886. It is constructed from herringbone-tooled stone, with the east end made of squared stone and vertically tooled dressings. The roof is made of stone flags, with a porch covered in slate. The church has a west tower, a continuous nave and chancel, and a south porch. The single-stage tower has coped battlements above a raised parapet band and a round-headed louvred bell opening on the south side. The central gabled porch on the south features a round-arched opening, with round-arched window openings on either side containing paired lights with cusped pointed heads. There is a raised eaves band, and on the north side, there is one similar window to the west. The east window is pointed, consisting of three lights with cusped intersecting tracery. The porch and east end have coped gables and gable crosses. Inside, there is a reset sedilia on a carved corbel head to the south of the sanctuary, a barrel-vaulted roof with painted bands of lozenge decoration, and a tub font on a cylindrical pedestal. The church is stylistically attributed to John Smith of Farndale, who is also known for the construction of the Church of St Aidan in Gillamoor.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas 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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