Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- riven-storey-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Church Lane, Stainforth, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 820 673
- Coordinates
- 54.10187, -2.27582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church built between 1839 and 1842, with alterations made in 1873. It is designed in the Perpendicular style and constructed from squared rubble with ashlar dressings, topped by a slate roof. The church features a west tower, a nave, a chancel, a southeast entrance porch, and a northeast vestry.
The three-stage tower is marked by string courses separating each stage. The west entrance has a two-centre head, a moulded architrave, a hoodmould, and plank doors. Above this entrance is a single light window with a cinquefoil head. Each face of the tower has a two-light belfry opening with slate louvres, cinquefoil heads, and hoodmoulds. The tower is supported by stepped clasping buttresses, each adorned with a gargoyle, and topped with an embattled parapet.
The nave consists of four bays, each separated by stepped buttresses. In each bay, there is a three-light window featuring rectilinear tracery, cinquefoil heads, and hoodmoulds. Below the embattled parapet, a string course is decorated with three carved heads. The chancel is lower and narrower than the nave and has a single bay. Its four-light east window also has rectilinear tracery, cinquefoil heads, and a hoodmould, along with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet.
To the north of the chancel is a single-storey vestry, which has an entrance with a two-centred head. The chimney of the vestry is cleverly disguised as a turret that rises above the chancel's buttress. A similar vestry and turret on the south side now serves as the entrance porch. Inside, the church features a false hammer beam roof supported by carved stone corbels, spanning three bays.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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