Chapel of Ease is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1970. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Chapel of Ease

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1970
Type
Chapel
Address
Chapel of Ease, Main Street, Thornton-Le-Beans, DL6 3SP
OS grid reference
SE 395 903
Coordinates
54.30754, -1.39359
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel of Ease was built in 1770 and underwent refenestration in the late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated Westmorland slate roof. The building consists of a nave with a south porch and a chancel. The nave has four bays, expressed as three, with a gabled porch located to the left of the center. This porch has a basket arch and an inner doorway with a chamfered, square-headed surround leading to a boarded door. The first bay contains a cusped, square-headed single-light window, while to the right of the porch is a similar two-light window adjacent to a sundial without a gnomon. The gables have copings, and there is an offset bellcote at the west end, which features a cornice and gable. The chancel includes a single-light window on the south side and a cusped pointed-arched window on the east side, along with a small opening in the gable beneath ashlar copings topped with a cross. Inside, the chapel has 18th-century fielded-panel pews and fragments of early glass in the nave windows.

Local climate

Chapel of Ease receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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