Font in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Against West Wall of South Transept is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Font.
Font in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Against West Wall of South Transept
- WRENN ID
- grim-flint-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Font
- Address
- Font in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Against West Wall of South Transept, Main Street, Wath
- OS grid reference
- SE 325 771
- Coordinates
- 54.18905, -1.5033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The font, located in the graveyard of the Church of St Mary against the west wall of the south transept, is possibly from the 15th century. It is made of sandstone and features a two-tier octagonal base with a square section stem that has two bands of very worn roll mouldings. The bowl of the font is also octagonal in shape.
Local climate
Font in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Against West Wall of South Transept receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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