Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1954. A Late C11 Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
steep-hall-holly
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1954
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Town Green, Crambe
OS grid reference
SE 733 648
Coordinates
54.07447, -0.88081
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a building of group value, dating from the late 11th century, with significant additions and alterations across the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th centuries. The nave and chancel are constructed of sandstone and gritstone rubble, incorporating some reused Roman masonry, while the tower is of pale limestone ashlar. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, and a two-bay chancel.

The three-stage buttressed tower is divided by string courses, and features a round-headed doorway with headstops to the hoodmould, and a round-headed south-facing window with human and grotesque headstops. Twin round-headed belfry windows are present on each face, beneath a battlemented parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. An inscription on the north face reads "DIEV TEMPLE YARD ET GARDE DE ROY." The nave has lancet windows to the west, with a large grotesque to the left of that facing south. To the north, a restored pointed doorway is visible, while a blocked round-headed doorway is found to the south. East of these doorways are two deeply splayed round-headed windows; the head of the south window is of a single stone enriched with interlace carving. There are two heavily restored two-light windows in Decorated style to the east end of the nave. A grave slab built into the jamb of the south window bears the inscription "HIC INFRA JACIT CORPUS THO STUBLEY ANNO 1602." To the south of the much-restored chancel is a pointed doorway flanked by two single-light trefoil-headed windows. A fragment of a 10th-century hogsback is built into the southern wall, alongside a single-light trefoil-headed window and a small round-headed window. The 19th-century east window is in Decorated style, and fragments of a 13th-century incised floriate cross grave slab are incorporated into the east wall.

The interior features a late 12th-century font with a square bowl and intersecting round-arched arcade on each side, supported by a central pillar with four corner shafts featuring waterleaf capitals. Grotesques appear on the springers of the tower arch. Also within the interior are an early 17th-century pulpit with carved panels and altar rails.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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