Church of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. Church.
Church of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- standing-parapet-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Stephen, High Street, Snainton
- OS grid reference
- SE 919 823
- Coordinates
- 54.2289, -0.59139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Stephen is a church built in 1836 by John Barry. It features hammer-dressed sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, and a slate roof. The structure consists of a continuous nave and chancel, topped with a west bellcote.
At the west end, there is a single foiled light with a hood-mould at ground level, and above it are two pairs of round-arched lights with chamfered surrounds and mullions at the gallery level. The bellcote is gabled and has two lights.
On the south side, to the west of the south wall, there is a square-headed doorway with a hood-mould that contains a two-centred door arch beneath carved spandrels. To the east, there are four mullion and transom windows, each with three round-arched lights and flat hood-moulds. The eaves cornice is cavetto-moulded.
At the east end, there is a blocked round-arched east window with three stepped lights and circular tracery. A single round-headed light in a quoined chamfered surround is located on the south side, and the gables are coped. Inside, there is a plain circular font from the 12th century.
Local climate
Church of St Stephen receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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