Church of St Mary in the Wood (Congregational)
CHURCH OF ST MARY IN THE WOOD (CONGREGATIONAL), TROY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135116
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary in the Wood (Congregational)
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY IN THE WOOD (CONGREGATIONAL), TROY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135116
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary in the Wood (Congregational)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY IN THE WOOD (CONGREGATIONAL), TROY 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 MARY IN THE WOOD (CONGREGATIONAL), TROY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Morley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2638028012
Details
SE2628SW LS27 TROY ROAD
MORLEY (east side)
7/47
30.4.82 CHURCH OF ST MARY IN THE WOOD
Congregational Church
GV II
Congregational Church. 1878 by Lockwood and Mawson. Hammer-dressed stone,
ashlar dressings, Welsh blue-slate roof. Cruciform. Aisleless nave, transepts,
shallow east end, tall south-west corner tower. Gothic Revival simple Early
English style. 4-stage tower with angle buttresses which rise to form octagonal
corner turrets flanking pedimented gable with clock set between which hides base
of broached stone spire. 2-light shafted bell stage openings. West end of nave
has shafted paired doorways recessed for one order with rich foliate carving and
large naturalistic rose to tympanum. West window has 4 cusped lights with
cinquefoils over 2 pairs and one to apex. 3-bay nave articulated by offset
buttresses has 3-light window to ground floor with trefoil-headed lights and
gallery with arched lights. 2nd bay has gabled dormer with larger 3-light
window with quatrefoil to apex. Attached to 1st bay of north elevation projecting
canted corner bay. Tall gabled transepts with tall 3-light windows to light
gallery, diagonal buttresses. West window has 4 trefoil-headed lights surmounted
by large rose window.
Interior: gallery to 3 sides, supported on cast-iron Doric columns, with tiered
pitch-pine box pews. Columns continue to support arch-braced roof with braced
wall ties supported on stone corbels. Chancel arch springs from short marble
columns. Elaborate carved pulpit has panels decorated with Perpendicular tracery.
Choir-stalls with poppy-heads. Large Royal Coat-of-Arms dated 1664 painted on
wood panels from earlier church on this site.
Site of Presbyterian church during the Commonwealth and Congregationalist from C1800.
Listing NGR: SE2638028012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341837
- 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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