Church of Saint Wilfrid is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1970. A Medieval Church.

Church of Saint Wilfrid

WRENN ID
slow-eave-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1970
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of Saint Wilfrid, Great Langton
OS grid reference
SE 302 961
Coordinates
54.36001, -1.53673
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Saint Wilfrid is a church dating back to the 12th century, with a nave from that period and a chancel that was altered in the 14th century. The 19th century saw the addition of a south porch and a north vestry. The building is constructed from sandstone, which is rendered, and features a stone-slate roof.

The nave includes a diagonal buttress, while the gabled porch has a chamfered pointed-arch doorway with a hoodmould. The south doorway, dating from the 12th century, is adorned with columns and cushion capitals, and features a single step arch and a board door. To the right of the porch, there are two 19th-century windows, each with two trefoil-headed lights and flat hoodmoulds.

The chancel consists of two bays and has a central buttress, with an angle buttress at the east end topped by a pinnacle. There is a 15th-century pointed-arch boarded priest's door, with a one-light chamfered window to the left and a three-light window to the right, both featuring pointed arches, chamfered surrounds, and flat hoodmoulds. The east window is decorated with three lights and reticulated tracery. At the west end, there is a 19th-century bell-cote with ashlar coping.

Inside, there is an early 15th-century effigy of a priest wearing a chasuble and holding a chalice.

Local climate

Church of Saint Wilfrid receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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