Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- wild-merlon-nightshade
- 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 Mary, the Green, Kettlewell with Starbotton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 971 722
- Coordinates
- 54.14613, -2.04528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary is a Grade II* listed church located in Kettlewell with Starbotton. The tower was built in 1820 by Thomas Anderson, while the nave and chancel were constructed between 1882 and 1885 by T.H. and F. Healey. The church features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and a graduated stone slate roof.
The structure includes a three-bay nave with a south porch, a three-bay chancel, and a west tower that has three stages. The tower's south door has a plain surround with a keyed round arch, and there is a fanlight with interlaced glazing bars in a plain surround at the first stage. The belfry stage has a projecting band and large pointed windows with wooden louvres and hoodmoulds, topped with a battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles.
The gabled south porch features a deeply moulded pointed arch, while the nave and chancel windows are in the perpendicular style, with flat heads in the nave and pointed heads in the chancel. The east window has five lights, and the gable copings are adorned with cross finials.
Inside, the nave roof is supported by six collar beam trusses on corbels, and the chancel ceiling is painted with shields and chevrons. A wide chancel arch leads into the chancel. There are three notable mid-20th century stained glass windows commemorating those who died in the two world wars, one of which is signed by William Morris from 1953, all featuring contemporary detail. The font, likely retooled from the 13th century, is circular with roll moulding and corner acanthus-type stiff leaf ornament, standing on four chamfered legs.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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