Church Well is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Wellhouse.
Church Well
- WRENN ID
- dusted-ashlar-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Wellhouse
- Address
- Church Well, Church Road, Thornton in Craven
- OS grid reference
- SD 901 483
- Coordinates
- 53.93093, -2.15176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Well is a wellhouse built in 1764. It is constructed from rubble with a stone slab roof and has an octagonal shape, featuring coping and a monolithic cap and ball. The coping is inscribed with the words: "H RICHARDSON RECTOR Fontem huic salutiferum et perantiquum tecto munivit Anno Aerae Christianae MDCCL XIV Quod Publicae Sanitati bene vorcat," which translates to "H Richardson Rector furnished this ancient and health-giving spring with a roof in the year of the Christian Era 1764, to turn it to the public good."
Local climate
Church Well sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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