Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286504
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286504
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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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 LEONARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wortley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 30722 99393
Details
WORTLEY WORTLEY VILLAGE SK39NW 4/142 Church of St. Leonard 25.4.69 GV II Church. Of medieval origin, tower rebuilt by John Platt in 1753-4 (Colvin,p641) rest rebuilt c1815 and later in C19. Coursed, squared sandstone, stone slate roof. 4-stage west tower; 6-bay, aisleless, nave and chancel in one with south porch and north vestry. Gothic Revival style with some true Gothic fragments. Tower: chamfered plinth, large quoins. String course and offset at each stage. Slit windows to lower stages except for 3-light mullioned window to ground floor on north; clock to 3rd stage on north and south; 2-light belfry openings with trefoil-headed and louvred lights in deeply-chamfered surrounds; embattled parapet. Nave and chancel: large quoins. Traces of C18 mullioned gallery window at south-west end. Shallow-gabled south porch to left of three 3-light windows having Y-tracery in cyma-moulded surrounds. Moulded priests' door to left of reset C14 3-light window with reticulated tracery now lighting south chapel. East window of 3 lights with smaller dividing lights in Perpendicular style with Tudor-arched heads. North vestry window of 3 ogee-headed lights with relieving arch. 2 stone-roofed additions on north side.
Interior: rounded chancel arch, flanking arches in same style as are 2-bay arcades to north and south. Numerous wall monuments to the Stuart Wortley family of Wortley Hall the finest being those: on south side of east window to Mary Wortley d.1794 by Regnart; on north side to Edward Wortley (d.1761: erected 1778); above central pier of south chapel arcade to John Stuart Wortley (d.1797); on east wall of south chapel to Margaret Stuart Wortley Mackenzie (d.1808) by Flaxwan, set in older trefoil-headed niche with colonettes; C19 wall monument to same family on north wall of nave; also one to Benjamin Newton, schoolmaster (d.1816: erected 1818). Details of monuments in Pevsner (p559). 3 hatchments over south door.
H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1800, 1978
N. Pevsner, B.O.E. 1976 Ed.
Listing NGR: SK3072299393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - The West Riding, (1959)
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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