CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND OUR LADY (WRAGBY PARISH CHURCH)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1253565
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND OUR LADY (WRAGBY PARISH CHURCH)
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND OUR LADY (WRAGBY PARISH CHURCH)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1253565
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND OUR LADY (WRAGBY PARISH CHURCH)
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND OUR LADY (WRAGBY PARISH CHURCH)

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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Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND OUR LADY (WRAGBY PARISH CHURCH)

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District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell
National Grid Reference:: SE 40776 17299

Details

HUNTWICK WITH FOULBY NOSTELL PARK SE 4017 AND NOSTELL 6/39 Church of St. Michael 25.3.1968 and Our Lady (Wragby Parish Church). (Formerly listed as "Church of St. Michael") GV I

Church. Dated 1533 in chancel; restored. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel with continuous north and south aisles. Perpendicular style. The unbuttressed tower has a chamfered plinth, a 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of hollow moulding, and a hoodmould, a 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery and a hoodmould, and above this a niche with cusped ogee head and a finial flanked 2 carved wheel patterns on each side, a dripmould to the belfry stage, 2-light louvred belfry windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds, and an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles. The 4-bay nave has a clerestorey of 4 deeply-recessed square-headed windows each of 3 arched lights with hollow spandrels and hoodmoulds. The aisles are buttressed and have deeply- recessed windows, all of 3 cusped lights with Perpendicular tracery, with hollow-moulded reveals and hoodmoulds; and embattled parapets; there is a gabled porch to the 1st bay of the south aisle, with 2-centred arched outer doorway moulded in 2 orders, and hoodmould with figured stops, a dripmould following the gable and carried round, and a high embattled parapet with a sundial mounted in the apex over the doorway. The chancel has a large transomed east window with cusped lights and Perpendicular tracery. Interior: nave and chancel arcades of double-chamfered 2-centred arches on octagonal columns with moulded caps; kingpost roof to nave; coffered ceiling to chancel, with moulded beams and carved bosses; Latin inscription on wallplate in chancel commemorating Prior Alured (Comyn - penultimate prior of the Augustinian Priory of St Oswald) "who caused this choir to be built the ninth year of his Priorate and in the year of Our Lord 1533;" cylindrical Norman font with large zig-zag decoration (brought from Auburn near Bridlington in 1830); Flemish carved reredos; wall monument to Sir Rowland Winn (4th baronet), by Flaxman, 1806. Pulpit with C17 Venetian carved panels in Turkish boxwood, and sounding board; hatchments of Winn family (in chancel) and Arms of Charles II (above door); Cl8 organ case.

Listing NGR: SE4077917297

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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.