Bretton Church
Bretton Church, Huddersfield Road, WF4 4JX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135462
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Bretton Church
- Statutory Address:
- Bretton Church, Huddersfield Road, WF4 4JX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135462
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bretton Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bretton Church, Huddersfield Road, WF4 4JX
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:
- Bretton Church, Huddersfield Road, WF4 4JX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- West Bretton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28952 12896
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 September 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SE21SE
8/91
WEST BRETTON
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
Bretton Church
(Formerly listed as PARK ROAD (south side, off) Church in Bretton Park)
22.11.66
GV
II*
Church. 1744 by Sir William Wentworth, for his own estate. Ashlar. Stone slate roof. Five-bay nave and chancel with two-bay addition to north containing the organ. In Classical style. The three bays of the symmetrical west front are framed and separated by giant Tuscan pilasters with exaggerated entasis. They support a moulded band beneath the pediment. Blind central doorway with moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets. Niche to each side. Small first-floor sash windows of six, eight and six lights. Round-arched window in tympanum of pediment. Cylindrical bell chamber, on a broad square base, with a domed top. Round, louvred openings. The south side is symmetrical with a doorway to left and right (the latter blind) each with moulded architrave and cornice and blind panel above. Three 24-pane fixed lights. Plinth, sill band, moulded band at high level and moulded eaves cornice. The east front has a large well-detailed and proportioned Tuscan Venetian window. Along the base is a series of 10 marble memorial tablets to members of the Wentworth and Beaumont families including:
Thomas Richard Beaumont d.July 31st 1829 aged 72
Diana Beaumont d.Aug 10th 1831 aged 67
Thomas Blackett Beaumont d.July 10th 1792 aged 67
Sir William Wentworth Bart. d.March 1st 1763 aged 77
Wentworth Blacket Beaumont
(1st Baron Allendale) b.1829 d.13th Feb 1907
Interior: plain. Small gallery at rear with wooden panelled front, with three round-arched openings to each floor. Panelled dado. Bracketed ceiling cornice. Tall, straight-backed, panelled pews.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967.
D. Linstrum. West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture. 1978 Bretton College Archive.
Listing NGR: SE2895212896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342587
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
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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