Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, TOWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255810
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, TOWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255810
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, TOWN STREET
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, TOWN STREET
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 28694 30839
Details
LEEDS
SE23SE TOWN STREET, Beeston 714-1/10/533 (North side) 05/08/76 Church of St Mary
II
Anglican church. Chancel 1877, nave and aisles 1885-6 by CH Thornton. Rock-faced coursed masonry. Steeply-pitched slate roofs. PLAN: nave, low aisles, chancel. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: round clerestory windows with quatrefoil and trefoil lights. Small aisle lancets and Perpendicular window in E end of S aisle. 5-light E window with plate tracery. Rose window in W gable with plate traceried 2-light windows below. Small stone gabled porch to SW and slim tower, square on plan with octagonal belfry with small gables over and short stone spire. 2 gravestones, of the Clark family of Beeston Park and Beeston Lodge, are built into the E wall of the vestry (outside). INTERIOR: 5-bay nave, cylindrical columns, roll-moulded caps, stone corbels, arch-braced timber roof. NW corner: C17 font with octagonal base, chamfered shaft, strapwork decoration to bowl; font in use dated 1886. Shallow aisles, wall memorials pre-date rebuilding. N Wall: John Hewitt, 1796; Samuel Walker of Millshaw, cloth manufacturer, '...zealous for the advancement of the/ Woollen manufacture of this neighbourhood', d.1851. S wall: John Jackson of Cottingley Hall, 1695; brass plaque with inscription to Christopher Hodgson, 1642, Elizabeth Hodgson, 1648. West gallery, cast-iron columns, organ. Pulpit given by Mary Scales of Armley Ridge, 1886: octagonal, arcaded panels, moulded and carved decoration. Chancel: arch has attached octagonal columns, ribbed and panelled ceiling, restoration and reredos panelling 1920, altar 1950. Fragments of C16 heraldic stained glass in E window of S chapel which is the re-set window of the earlier chapel (see below). Chancel E window by Thomas Baillie, in memory of William Hill, d.1841, for Harriet Hill, d.1878. In the vestry: C12 fragments of carved stone reconstructed as an archway, not seen. HISTORICAL NOTE: the medieval chapel on this site had nave and chancel with a late C15 S chapel. The chapel was rebuilt post 1789, retaining the E windows. The present chancel was added to the late C18 rebuild in 1877 and the old building was demolished in 1885-6 when the nave was added; the medieval S chapel window was retained however, and built into the corresponding position in the new church; earlier fragments
being rebuilt in the vestry. (West Yorkshire Archaeological Service: Ryder, P: Medieval Churches of West Yorkshire: 1993-: 141).
Listing NGR: SE2869430839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465615
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryder, P, Medieval Churches of West Yorkshire, (1993), 141
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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