Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1970. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- north-loggia-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1970
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary, High Street, Appleton Wiske
- OS grid reference
- NZ 389 046
- Coordinates
- 54.43592, -1.4004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building with origins dating back to the 12th century, although the chancel is likely from the 16th century. It underwent significant alterations in 1875. The church is constructed of ashlar and coursed squared stone, topped with graduated stone slate and Welsh slate roofs.
The nave features two bays and includes a south porch and a lower chancel with a north vestry. On the west side, there is an offset diagonal buttress and a rough cast plain gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway. To the right, a 19th-century two-light pointed-arched window with cusped tracery and a hoodmould is present, along with two similar windows on the north side. A three-light pointed west window from the 19th century is also located here. The building has stone copings and a gabled offset bellcote with a pointed-arched opening facing west.
In the chancel, there is a blocked priest's doorway with a four-centred arched head to the left and a twin lancet window from the 16th century to the right. The east window is a three-light design with pointed-arched, chamfered lights beneath a flat head, and it also features stone coping. The 20th-century north vestry includes mullioned windows.
Inside, the chancel arch dates back to the 12th century and consists of two orders of nook-shafts. One of the shafts is decorated with lozenges and includes a figure of a man, while the capitals feature one with scallops and a dragon, and another with free volutes and scrolls.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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