St Helens Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Chapel.
St Helens Chapel
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-dormer-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- St Helens Chapel, Main Street, Skelton-On-Ure
- OS grid reference
- SE 361 683
- Coordinates
- 54.10957, -1.4488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Helens Chapel is an early 19th-century chapel located on Main Street in Skelton. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone and features a grey slate roof. The building is small and rectangular, consisting of two bays, and has a west porch with a flattened segmental moulded arch, complete with a hoodmould and a trefoil recess above. The west gable displays an ornate window with three pointed lights set in a shallow pointed arch, also featuring a hoodmould, and there is a bellcote above. The east window is similar but larger, and both gables have stone coping and shaped kneelers. Inside, there is a plaque on the east wall commemorating Elizabeth, the wife of Isaac Grakelt, who died in 1828. In the 19th century, the building served as a mortuary, and no furnishings were present at the time of the resurvey.
Local climate
St Helens Chapel receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% 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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