Church of St Martin is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- winding-keep-furze
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Martin, Albion Road, Scarborough
- OS grid reference
- TA 042 877
- Coordinates
- 54.27502, -0.40127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin is a parish church built between 1861 and 1862 by architect G F Bodley. It is an early and exceptionally fine example of his work, designed in the Gothic Revival style and largely faced with ashlar stone. The church features a tall tower on the north side of the east end, topped with a saddle-back roof. It includes a nave with a high clerestory, an aisle, and a chancel, as well as large porches on the sides and a prominent rose window at the west end.
Inside, the church has a very lofty wooden wagon roof. The interior is decorated with stained glass and other features by Morris & Co., marking one of their earliest major commissions. The pulpit is adorned with ten painted panels by notable artists D G Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, and William Morris. The chancel ceiling is decorated by William Morris and Philip Webb. The altar wall features blind bar tracery designed by Bodley, which contains the "Adoration of the Magi" by Edward Burne-Jones. Additionally, there is a reredos and roodscreen created by Bodley in 1889, along with a large organ case also designed by him, with paintings on the west side by Spencer Stanhope.
Local climate
Church of St Martin receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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