Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- half-marble-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Stansfield Brow, Lothersdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 962 459
- Coordinates
- 53.90968, -2.05789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a parish church built in 1838 by architect Chantrell, with the chancel added in 1884. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a slate roof. The church consists of a nave, a west tower, and a short, narrow chancel. The tower has three stages, an embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses, and heavily crocketed pinnacles. The south door is adorned with decorative hinges and a label featuring foliated stops. The belfry includes 2-light Gothic windows. The nave has five bays with square-headed windows, each containing two ogee-headed lights. The chancel is a single bay with a three-light Perpendicular east window and a gable cross, along with stone gutter brackets.
Inside, the church is aisleless and supported by four slim queen-post trusses. The floor is made of stone flags. The first three bays contain low box pews with slight Gothic decoration, tiered at the back. An octagonal stone font is centrally located. The chancel arch has a hoodmould with label stops that are said to represent the Bishop of Ripon and Queen Victoria. Most of the remaining fittings are later additions, including the east window from 1884. A board in the lobby records a grant from the Incorporated Church Building Society.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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