Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1987. Church.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- vast-wall-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stonebeck Down
- OS grid reference
- SE 119 709
- Coordinates
- 54.13404, -1.81855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a church built in 1843, constructed from coursed squared stone and ashlar, topped with a graduated slate roof. It features a west tower and a nave. The three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses on the west side that rise to the bell stage. The west side includes three steps leading to a double board door set in a pointed arch stone surround with a hoodmould. Both the south and north sides of the tower have lancet windows with hoodmoulds, and a similar arrangement is found above on the west side. The tower is adorned with clock faces on three sides at the top of the second stage, a chamfered band, and belfry windows with two lights featuring flat-faced Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and plain pinnacles at each corner.
The nave consists of three bays, with offset angle buttresses at each end that have pinnacles above. The central bay is flanked by smaller offset buttresses. All windows in the nave are lancets with hoodmoulds, and the structure has stone coping with a gable cross. The east window is similar to the others but has three lights. The interior of the church is very simple.
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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