Holy Evangelists Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1986. Church.
Holy Evangelists Church
- WRENN ID
- buried-ashlar-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Holy Evangelists Church, East Lane, Shipton
- OS grid reference
- SE 553 589
- Coordinates
- 54.02365, -1.15683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Evangelists Church is a church built between 1848 and 1849 by G T Andrews for the Hon Payan Dawnay of Beningbrough Hall. It is constructed of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The church is designed in the Early English style and includes an aisled nave, a north-west tower, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry.
The tower has four stages and a north-west vice, with offset angle buttresses and trefoil-headed windows that have hoodmoulds. The belfry windows are adorned with colonettes, and the tower is topped with a broach spire that includes lucarnes and small quatrefoils. The nave consists of four bays, and the porch features fleur-de-lis-finialled buttresses, roll-moulding, and a hood-mould over the doorway. Inside, there is an inner pointed-arch doorway with colonettes and a nail-studded board door that has decorative ironwork.
The south aisle has a chamfered plinth, offset buttresses, and quoined surrounds to one- and two-light windows. The clerestory features quatrefoils, while the west end has two single-light windows beneath a cinquefoil in a raised surround. The chancel has three bays, with a lower and narrower central priest's door and three two-light windows topped with quatrefoils. The pointed-arch east window contains paired trefoil-headed lights, each with a trefoil above and a cinquefoil over the whole. The church also has eaves bands, copings, and fleur-de-lis finials.
Inside, the nave arcade consists of double-chamfered pointed arches supported by octagonal columns. The church features a carved, painted reredos and a fretted, panelled choir screen with decorative iron gates designed by Temple Moore. The east window was created by Willement.
Local climate
Holy Evangelists Church receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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