Church of St Aidan is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Church.
Church of St Aidan
- WRENN ID
- stark-tallow-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Aidan, Main Street, Hellifield
- OS grid reference
- SD 856 564
- Coordinates
- 54.0042, -2.22014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Aidan is a parish church built between 1905 and 1906 by the architects Connon & Chorley from Leeds. It is constructed of dressed, snecked sandstone with a Westmorland slate roof. The church features a north entrance porch, a north tower, a four-bay nave, a three-bay chancel, and a north vestry, all designed in a Free Gothic style. The gabled porch has a segmental pointed arch entrance with a plank door fitted with iron strap hinges and diagonal buttresses. The three-stage tower includes three-light windows with segmental pointed arches on the first stage, a small lancet window on the second stage above a splayed water table, and a large three-light louvred window at the bell stage, topped with embattled machicolation. The nave has two three-light windows on the north side and four similar windows on the south side. The chancel features a three-light east window with cusped heads and a cruciform finial on the east gable. The entrance to the north vestry has a Tudor arch. Inside, the church has an arched trussed roof supported by bolted king posts.
Local climate
Church of St Aidan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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