Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213930
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213930
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
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 LAWRENCE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 22039 33062
Details
SE2233SW LS28 CHURCH LANE PUDSEY (east side) 6/117 Church of St. Lawrence
GV II
Commissioners' Church. c1821 by Thomas Taylor (Leeds) constructed by Messrs. Hainsworth & Co., digging contractors. Ashlar, Westmorland blue-slate roof. Gothic Revival style. West tower, nave with clearstorey, aisles, shallow sanctuary. Tower: 3-stages, embattled, with offset gableted angle buttresses with gablets surmounted by tall crocketed pinnacles. South doorway and all windows 4-centred arched. 3-light west window; 2nd stage has 2-light window; clock to each face; 3-light transomed belfry opening with traceried head. Nave: 5-bay, 3-light windows to aisles, 2-light to clearstorey with intersecting Y-tracery, articulated by tall gableted buttresses, embattled parapets continuing across gables. Sanctuary: one bay with low lean-to either side. 5-light transomed east window.
Interior: aisle arcade of tall octagonal columns with moulded capitals, coved flat-ceilinged roof. Galleried on 3 sides, the fronts finely carved c1922 when Perpendicular-style panelling was added above sanctuary arch which is flanked by contemporary painting by Madeline French. Re-pewed c1877 when 1st bay of nave was occupied by a new chancel with choir stalls with carved poppy heads and organ with elaborate case was added. Caen-stone octagonal pulpit with shafted marble columns.
Listing NGR: SE2203933062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341881
- 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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