Church of St Mary and Presbytery
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND PRESBYTERY, EAST PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133180
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND PRESBYTERY, EAST PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133180
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND PRESBYTERY, EAST PARADE
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 MARY AND PRESBYTERY, EAST PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 17004 33366
Details
1. 5111 EAST PARADE BD1 (east side)
Church of St Mary and Presbytery SE 1733 35/467 SE 1633 SE 37/467
II
2. Roman Catholic. 1874-76. Edward Simpson architect. A large, towerless, Gothic church of sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Simplified and Early English details. Low shallow buttressed aisles, tall clerestory where the dominant feature of the design occurs in the massive solid butresses rising on a slight curve from the aisle roofs and dividing the clerestory lights in pairs. Lofty slate roof running through over apsidal chancel. Gabled Lady Chapel projects towards street line and the 3-storey gabled presbytery is built on to the east end. A tower was intended but never executed. The height of the clerestory and the chancel arch give a strong vertical emphasis to the interior, enhanced by the lightness of the scissor braced roof trusses. The nave piers have shafts of Irish marble and the whole is roughly pointed, particularly in the sanctuary with its gilded reredos. Corbelled on angel brackets at the spring of the nave arcades are statues of the saints with crocketed canopies above. Plain glass, apart from chancel. St Mary's was built as the Roman Catholic Mother Church of Bradford, principally due to the efforts of Canon John Motler, parish priest 1865-81. Much of the construction was carried out by the parishioners themselves.
Listing NGR: SE1700433366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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