Church of St Wilfrid is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Church.

Church of St Wilfrid

WRENN ID
calm-chapel-summer
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Wilfrid, Duchy Road, Harrogate
OS grid reference
SE 294 555
Coordinates
53.99521, -1.55286
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Wilfrid is a large and finely designed church built between 1909 and 1914 by Temple Moore, with north and south transepts added around 1924 to 1928 by Leslie Moore, who also designed the Lady Chapel in 1935. The church is in the early English style and features a three-bay nave with aisles, a three-bay chancel with a clerestory, and an octagonal Lady Chapel at the east end that includes an ambulatory. The transepts are two bays each, with the north transept featuring a tower-like entrance porch and an organ above, while the south transept is apsidal. The church has a crenellated central tower topped with a pyramidical roof, and the roofs are slated and tiled with corbelled eaves. The walls are made of Bath stone ashlar and are buttressed. The windows include paired lancet lights, with the west end showcasing two three-light windows in a hexagonal bow and a five-light east window, all featuring stained glass by Victor Milner. The entrance porch is deeply recessed with receding orders, and the interior boasts a stone rib-vaulted roof.

Local climate

Church of St Wilfrid receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% 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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