Church of St Simon and St Jude is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Church.
Church of St Simon and St Jude
- WRENN ID
- hollow-window-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Simon and St Jude, Thornton Steward
- OS grid reference
- SE 145 873
- Coordinates
- 54.28131, -1.77731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Simon and St Jude is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1868 for Simon Thomas Scrope of Danby Hall. It is constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has an irregular cruciform plan and includes quoins. The openings have depressed round-arched heads, with a doorway located in the south-east angle and a north window consisting of three lights. An octagonal tower with a belfry, which has paired openings with stiff-leaf capitals and a decorative tile roof, rises above the western arm of the church. The interior is oriented liturgically east to the geographic north. Below the church lies an older crypt, which serves as the burial place for the Scropes of Danby. The church is attached to the north of the Presbytery, and the tower is a notable feature in the landscape.
Local climate
Church of St Simon and St Jude receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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