Church of Saint Michael is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Church.
Church of Saint Michael
- WRENN ID
- former-vestry-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Michael, Westerns Lane, Markington with Wallerthwaite
- OS grid reference
- SE 286 650
- Coordinates
- 54.08087, -1.56386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Michael, built in 1844 by A H Cates for Mr. Wilberforce, is designed in an early Gothic style and underwent restoration in 1968. Constructed from gritstone with a Westmorland slate roof, the church features a five-bay nave that includes a bell-cote at the west end and a south porch at the second bay. The chancel, which has a lower roof, consists of two bays and includes a vestry on the north side. The porch showcases a pointed arch with a hood-mould and is topped by a statue of Saint Michael in a niche. It has a board door with strap hinges. The nave and chancel are adorned with trefoil-headed lancet windows, and the exterior is supported by stepped diagonal buttresses, with ashlar copings and crosses on the gable finials. Inside, the church boasts a fine roof structure featuring raised crucks on corbels in the nave and a type of waggon roof with scissor braces in the chancel. The three-light east window was designed by William Wailes, while the west window serves as a memorial to John Stanley Tute, the first vicar, who passed away in 1897. The bellcote and the west end of the nave roof were damaged by gales in 1962 and were rebuilt by 1968. The vestry was destroyed by fire in 1973, which also caused damage to the Sanctuary roof. The church was rededicated in 1974.
Local climate
Church of Saint Michael receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% 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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