Church of St Wilfred
CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, DONCASTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132537
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfred
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, DONCASTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132537
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfred
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, DONCASTER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRED, DONCASTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60419 30997
Details
SE 63 SW BRAYTON DONCASTER ROAD (west side) 5/2 Church of St Wilfrid 17.11.66
GV I
Church. C12-C15 with C19 additions. Magnesian limestone ashlar with slate roof. 4-bay chancel, 3-bay aisled nave, south porch and west tower. C13 - early C14 chancel: south side has buttress, doorway and lancet window to third bay, otherwise 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery. 4-light east window with Curvilinear tracery. Mid C19 vestry to north. Nave: north aisle retains lancet window to west otherwise windows with Perpendicular tracery throughout. C19 south porch covers late C12 doorway with 4 orders of arches with beakhead, medallion and chevron ornament and roll moulding. 3 orders of nook shafts and responds with interlaced and figurative decoration. Decorated square abaci. C12 embattled 3-stage tower with small lancet windows and with a string-course at cill level and a continuous billet frieze at impost level which rises above the openings to form hood-moulds. Corbel table to battlements. Above, a Perpendicular octagon with 2-light bell- openings crowned by slender octagonal stone spire. Interior: C12 chancel arch of 2 orders, the inner order with chevron moulding and the outer a plain roll moulding supported by responds with capitals with interlaced motifs and decorated square abaci. Early C14 nave arcade of double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. C12 tower arch with scalloped capitals. In the south wall of the chancel is a partly recut sedilia with crocket finials, also a C16 chest tomb to Lord D'Arcy d.1558 and wife Dorothea with effigies mutilated during the Protectorate. Wall monuments to Robinson and Thomas Morley (1766) and to Joseph Thompson (d.1809) both by Fishers of York. Stained glass to east window by H Hughes, 1878. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, pp144-5. __________________________
Listing NGR: SE6041930996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 325863
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 144-5
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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