Church of St Botolph is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Botolph
- WRENN ID
- low-niche-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Botolph, Carlton Highdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 047 812
- Coordinates
- 54.22706, -1.92909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Botolph is a church built in 1869, possibly incorporating some earlier materials. It features rubble construction, mainly coursed, with a stone slate roof. The building includes a three-storey west tower, a nave, and a chancel, arranged in one of four external and six internal bays, along with a south porch. The tower is made of uncoursed rubble and may date from an earlier period, with quoins and stepped angle buttresses. The second floor has a two-light pointed-arched belfry opening with Y-tracery and a hoodmould, topped by a string and battlemented parapet.
The porch is quoined, with a pointed-arched opening that has a continuous chamfer and hoodmould. It features a shaped kneeler and coping with a cross on the gable. The inner doorway is also pointed-arched with a continuous chamfer. The nave has a plinth, with bays divided by stepped buttresses. There are two two-light pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds, along with a lancet window with a hoodmould on the right. The east end displays watershot masonry and a three-light window with intersecting tracery and a hoodmould.
On the north side, there are three double-chamfered lancet windows, and between the first and second windows, there is a circular ashlar eaves chimney, with a rubble eaves chimney at the right end. The north side of the tower has steps leading up to a ringing chamber doorway, which was being altered at the time of the resurvey, and a first-floor louvred bow-topped opening in an ashlar surround. The west side of the tower features a ground-floor single-light bow-topped window in an ashlar surround, and a two-light belfry opening similar to the south side, which was bricked up at the time of the resurvey.
Inside, the chancel is located in the fifth bay, with the sanctuary in the sixth bay, separated by a round sub-arch leading to a king-post roof truss. The church has king-post roof trusses and a round arch leading to the tower. It was established around 1530 as a chapel of ease to be served by the Premonstratensian canons of Coverham Abbey.
Local climate
Church of St Botolph sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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