Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE LS25
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1237399
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE LS25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1237399
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE LS25
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, CHURCH LANE LS25
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Kippax
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 41684 30329
Details
SE 43 SW GARFORTH CHURCH LANE LS25 Kippax
3/8 Church of St. Mary
GV I
Church. Anglo-Saxon or early Norman, altered at various dates. Magnesian limestone rubble mostly in herringbone courses, with quoins; low-pitched lead-clad roof concealed by a parapet. West tower, nave, chancel, and C19 vestry. The tower (top stage remodelled probably in C13), has diagonal buttresses of that period, a round-headed lancet in each of the south and west sides of the 1st stage, two-centred arched belfry windows of 2 cusped lights with stone louvres, and an embattled parapet with C19 crocketed corner pinnacles. The south side of the nave has a small two-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround and hoodmould, protected by a gabled porch of large coursed blocks, with a moulded two-centred arched outer doorway, and a roof truss with cambered tie-beam and short octagonal crown post; each side of the porch is a deeply recessed two-centred arched window with moulded surround and straight chamfered mullions making three lights, and further right a 4-centred arched 3-light window with similar mullions, and a C19 arched 2-light window. The north side of the nave has a doorway similar to the south door to the right, and above this the remains of the right-hand half of a former round-headed opening, to the left patched masonry suggesting two former windows (perhaps Perpendicular), and at a higher level three round-arched lancets like those in the tower but under a simple extrados with stops. The line of a former steeply-pitched roof is visible on the east wall of the tower, and part of the gable remains as a sloped parapet at the west end. The chancel, also of herringbone masonry, but with a steeply-pitched slate roof, has a small round-headed priest doorway with chamfered surround, a C19 window to the left, a tall window of 2 lancet lights to the right, and a large recessed 2-centred arched east window of 4 lights with intersecting tracery and moulded surround. Interior: purlin roof carried by cambered beams with arch bracing to short wall-posts supported by stone corbels; round-headed tower arch; depressed 2-centred and double-chamfered chancel arch springing from moulded semi-octagonal corbels; in south-east corner of chancel a double piscina (or piscina and aumbry), one part in each wall, with corner colonnette, moulded extrados; attached to wall to right of chancel arch, fragments of a Saxon cross with carved human figure; octagonal cup-shaped font dated 1663, and elaborately carved font cover with foliated panels and ogee cresting; various wall monuments to members of Bland family of Kippax Park.
Listing NGR: SE4168230329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428648
- 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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