Church of Saint Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Church.
Church of Saint Margaret
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rood-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Margaret, Preston-Under-Scar
- OS grid reference
- SE 070 911
- Coordinates
- 54.31545, -1.89271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Margaret is a mission room built in 1862. It features rubble construction with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building has a nave and a small chancel, along with a vestry and an outbuilding at the rear. It is a single-storey structure with an E-shaped plan and two windows. The openings are round-headed with quoined surrounds. The nave has central leaved board doors beneath a fanlight with lozenge glazing bars. The windows include wooden Y-tracery and lozenge glazing bars. The church has shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, as well as ashlar corniced end stacks. A bellcote is situated over the vestry. Inside, there is a round-headed chancel arch and scissor trusses supporting the roof. A tiny octagonal portable font in the Perpendicular style and a tortoise stove are also present. The building was constructed as a Church of England mission room and opened in 1862.
Local climate
Church of Saint Margaret sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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