Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-courtyard-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Station Road, Bentham, LA2 7LH
- OS grid reference
- SD 668 688
- Coordinates
- 54.11462, -2.50822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret is a parish church located on Bentham Station Road in High Bentham. It was built in 1837 in the Lancet style by George Webster and was extended in 1902. The church is constructed of rockfaced stone with stone dressings and has a slate roof.
The structure includes a nave, a west tower, a chancel, a north vestry, and a south side chapel. The four-bay nave features four two-light lancet windows with hoodmoulds and pendant stops, along with buttresses and an embattled parapet. The three-stage tower has a west entrance with a four-centred head, a chamfered surround, and a hoodmould with carved heads. The middle stage contains a stepped tripartite window, while the bell stage has a two-light window with a hoodmould and pendant stops. The tower is adorned with octagonal angle turrets and an embattled parapet.
The two-bay chancel, north vestry, and south side chapel, all added in 1902, include two two-light windows with trefoil heads on the north and south sides, each with hoodmoulds. The east end of the side chapel features a three-light window with trefoil heads and a rose window above it. The east window of the chancel has four lights and trefoil plate tracery. The interior boasts an open king-post roof with scissor braces.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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