CHURCH OF ST WILFRID
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256092
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1981
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, SELBY ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, SELBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34702 33680
Details
LEEDS
SE33SW SELBY ROAD, Halton
714-1/11/709 (North side (off))
19/03/81 Church of St Wilfrid
II*
Anglican church. 1938. By A Randall Wells. Coursed thin
gritstone rubble, flat roof of asbestos cement covered
originally with Permanite, timber tower and spire, shingle
cladding.
PLAN: 3-bay nave and very narrow, low aisle; crossing with
polygonal tower and spire; transepts; choir and round apse.
EXTERIOR: windows show Early English Gothic influence in the
groups of 5 straight-sided pointed lancets in a relieving arch
of stones set on edge and flush with wall face; side windows
have large rectangular glazed panel centre. Aisles blind, apse
has small pointed window on N and S sides. Single-storey
vestry and porch in re-entrant angles of nave, transepts and
choir, plain mullioned windows. Timber tower gabled on each
face, spire has louvred bell openings.
INTERIOR: Expressionist-style massive plastered quoined vaults
rise from window-sill level, square-section piers support
aisles, shallow pointed arches, round-arched recesses between
vaults. Doors, choir stalls, screens of Columbian pine; turned
wood screens to lectern and pulpit, chairs of ash. Original
flooring was of rubber on asphalt, heating by gas boiler, hot
water battery and electric fan, indirect electric lighting.
The cost of the structure was »11,700 excluding fees, the
furniture and fittings »800 including chairs, seating was for
402 and 34 in choir.
(Incorporated Church Building Society: Fifty Modern Churches,
1930-1945: 40).
Listing NGR: SE3470233680
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465259
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Incorporated Church Building Society, , Fifty Modern Churches, (1947), 40
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
