CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN

CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE LS25

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237398
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE LS25

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237398
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE LS25

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE LS25

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 41017 33106

Details

SE 43 SW GARFORTH CHURCH LANE LS25 Garforth

3/7 Church of St. Mary the Blessed Virgin

GV II

Church. 1844, by George Fowler Jones. Dressed magnesian limestone, slate roof. Cruciform plan: nave with north and south aisles, full-height transepts, chancel, and crossing tower with broach spire. Early English style, with tall chamfered lancets and corbel table. Buttressed 3-bay nave and 2-bay aisles with doorways to 1st bay of aisles, that on the south side under a shallow gabled porch which has a deeply-recessed outer arch moulded in 2 orders, with clustered shafts and hoodmould with carved stops, a similar inner doorway with moulded surround and large double doors with ornamental strap hinges; and that on the north side with set-in shafts and hoodmould. West bay of nave has single lancet on each side, aisles have coupled lancets. West gable has stepped triple window, the centre of 2 lights with a quatrefoil in the head and the outer blind, with linked hoodmoulds, and gable coping with kneelers and an apex cross. Transepts have coupled lancets in the sides and 2-light windows in the gables, with hoodmoulds. Two-bay chancel has lancets in the sides, and stepped triple lancet east window. Crossing tower has weathering to set-back belfry stage, a panel in each side of this headed by a Lombard frieze and containing a 2- light belfry window with a hoodmould, and a clock face fixed to the mullion between the lights, a moulded cornice, and an octagonal spire with lucarnes in the cardinal sides. Roofs of nave, transepts, and chancel swept over the eaves.

Interior: short 3-bay arcades of cylindrical columns supporting 2-centred arches with figured stops; composite crossing piers with clustered shafts; arch-braced collar-truss roof.

Listing NGR: SE4101733106

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.