Church of St Wilfrid is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1966. Church.
Church of St Wilfrid
- WRENN ID
- ghost-iron-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Wilfrid, A61, South Kilvington
- OS grid reference
- SE 425 840
- Coordinates
- 54.24999, -1.3479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Wilfrid is a Grade II* listed church with origins dating back to the 12th century, featuring windows from the 13th and 14th centuries. It underwent significant restoration in the 19th century. The church has a south porch added in the 19th century and is constructed of stone with cement rendering both inside and out. It has a Welsh slate roof with ashlar coping and kneelers, and a shingled bell tower.
The church consists of an aisleless nave, a bell tower, a south porch, and a chancel. On the south wall of the nave, there is a Norman window alongside a 13th-century window that has two pointed trefoil lights and a quatrefoil in plate tracery above. The chamfered doorway features a door with ogee-headed panelling. In the chancel, the north wall includes a Norman window and a remodelled Norman doorway, while the south wall has another 13th-century window similar to that in the nave. The east window, likely from the early 14th century, contains three trefoil lights with three quatrefoils above.
Inside, there is a black marble hexagonal font with concave sides decorated with shields, resting on a stone base that bears a donor inscription for Thomas le Scrope (died 14949) and his wife Elizabeth. The church also features some castellated bench ends of medieval origin and Gothic stalls carved by the Reverend W T Kingsley, who served as rector from 1859 to 1917.
Local climate
Church of St Wilfrid receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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