Church of St Robert (Presbytery and Repository) is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 January 1995. Church, presbytery. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Robert (Presbytery and Repository)
- WRENN ID
- lone-loft-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1995
- Type
- Church, presbytery
- Address
- Church of St Robert (Presbytery and Repository), Robert Street, Harrogate, HG1 1HP
- OS grid reference
- SE 304 549
- Coordinates
- 53.98944, -1.53708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Robert, along with its presbytery and repository, was built in 1864 and 1879 by Goldie and Child, with alterations in 1906 by Marten of Leeds. It is a Roman Catholic church constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs, featuring coped gables and kneelers, designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The church itself comprises a nave and aisles, with a short, square tower to the north-east. The nave's clerestory has 12 lancet windows on the west and 11 on the east, while the aisles have similar, albeit irregular, lancet windows. The main front has a projecting gabled porch with 20th-century double doors, flanked by single lancets. Above the porch are four tall lancets with pink stone shafts and carved capitals, separated by a central buttress. A single central shaft with small lancets on either side rises above, topped by an ashlar bellcote with a spire. The square tower, banded with ashlar, features a saddle-back roof with two bell openings on each facade. An ashlar pointed archway connects the tower to the presbytery.
The two-storey presbytery with an attic has ashlar sill and hood bands. Its gabled south front features a two-storey canted bay window with three plain sashes to each floor. A canted corner turret has a single lancet on each face. The east front has two canted bay windows under a single lean-to roof, above two pairs of sashes and a small dormer. A large sash is present on the ground floor of the return angle, with a tripartite window above and a hipped dormer.
The repository to the east has a three-window south front with a central doorway and overlight, flanked by single sashes. Three similar sashes are positioned above, topped by three hipped dormers. The rounded east end has two sashes on the ground floor and a single sash above.
Inside, the church reveals five-bay arcades, the northern two sub-divided within the chancel, with circular columns and water-leaf capitals. The original wooden roof remains, now painted white, along with similar side aisle roofs. A wooden gallery with pews and an ornate organ are located on the south side. Other notable interior features include ornate Victorian side aisle chapels, original pews, and stained glass.
Local climate
Church of St Robert (Presbytery and Repository) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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