Church of St Aidan
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, RADCLIFFE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135306
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aidan
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, RADCLIFFE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135306
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aidan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, RADCLIFFE STREET
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 AIDAN, RADCLIFFE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Denby Dale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 22936 10439
Details
SE 21 SW RADCLIFFE STREET Skelmanthorpe 1/53 Church of St. Aidan
II
Church. 1894-5 by G. F. Bodley and T. Garner, in Late Gothic style. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Brick south wall. Pitched slate roof with small gabled bell-cote. 5-bay nave with 4-bay pitched- roofed north aisle of similar proportions. 3-bay chancel, with vestry on south side. Gabled north porch on western bay of nave. One 3-light and two 2-light traceried chancel windows. Paired lancets to aisle, with trefoil in head. Two 3-light traceried west windows, to nave. 3-light traceried east window. Wheel window to south side of chancel and to porch.
Interior: 4-bay arcade, between nave and aisle, on octagonal piers. Similar 5-bay arcade along south wall of nave. Good, carved oak commemorative reredos of c.1917 at east end of aisle. Commemorative stained glass east window (1891). Square, late Anglo-Saxon or early Norman font (Pevsner) on C19 or C20 pedestal. (Font said to have come from High Hoyland.) 3 interlaced arches on 2 sides. 2 panels on a 3rd side, and on the 4th side 4 panels with scrolls and foliage, two of which have figure heads at the top. Lead lined. Vaulted wood ceiling to aisle and chancel. Arched braced collar roof to nave. Wooden block floor to seating area. Small, simple chairs for pews.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE2293610439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341325
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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