Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1980. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- guardian-railing-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1980
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Leeds Road, Selby
- OS grid reference
- SE 608 321
- Coordinates
- 53.78217, -1.07733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary, built in 1854, is a Roman Catholic church designed by the architectural firm Messrs Hanson of Bath. It was constructed at the expense of Hon Laura Maria Petre, the widow of Hon E R Petre, to serve the growing population of Irish labourers in the area. The church is made of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a pitched slate roof in the Decorated style. Its layout includes a nave, chancel, lean-to aisles, and a tower above the south door topped with a broach spire and diagonal buttresses. At the west end, there is an apsidal baptistery, along with a vestry and sacristy. A notable feature is the exceptional north-west chapel, which is decorated internally with undressed stone resembling a grotto. Inside, the church boasts an elaborately sculpted pulpit, a contemporary font, and a crocketed font cover. There is a three-bay arcade leading to the west gallery, and the church contains stained glass windows, including an east window by Wailes and a window in the Sacred Heart Chapel by Ball.
Local climate
Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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