Old Font Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch of Church of Saint Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Font.
Old Font Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch of Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
- final-ember-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Font
- OS grid reference
- SD 910 978
- Coordinates
- 54.37629, -2.13928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The old font, located approximately 3 metres south of the porch of the Church of Saint Mary in Muker, is likely from around 1580. It is made of stone and features a square base that supports an octagonal shaft, which is about 1 metre high. The shaft is topped with a small circular bowl.
Local climate
Old Font Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch of Church of Saint Mary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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