Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ACKTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288962
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ACKTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288962
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ACKTON LANE
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 ALL SAINTS, ACKTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Featherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 42185 22090
Details
FEATHERSTONE ACKTON LANE SE 42 SW (north side) 3/3 Church of All Saints 13.3.64 GV II*
Church. Late medieval (probably C15), restored in late C19. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. West tower, nave with south aisle, chancel with south chapel. Perpendicular style. Three-stage tower, mostly of C19 masonry externally, and without buttresses, has a 2-light traceried west window, a small rectangular window in each side of the 2nd stage, belfry windows of 2 cusped lights with double-chamfered reveals, and a moulded cornice and embattled parapet; on the north side, an external stair turret rising to the 2nd stage, of worn medieval masonry, with a chamfered plinth and 2 offsets. The 2-bay nave has a buttressed north wall with C19 square-headed Perpendicular-style windows: 3 lights to the 1st bay, one and 2 lights to the 2nd bay. On the south side is a restored aisle of 2 bays, with buttresses; the gabled medieval porch to the 1st bay has a 2-centred arched outer doorway with hollow moulded surround, restored gable coping and corner pinnacles, roof carried on 3 massive chamfered transverse arches, an inner doorway with 2 orders of chamfer and an C18 door with 6 fielded panels; to the right of the porch are a C19 two-light window with cusped tracery and a 3-light mullioned window. An embattled parapet to the aisle continues over the chapel, which is of 3 bays, that in the centre with a priest door which has a depressed arched lintel and cavetto moulded surround, and the outer bays with C19 3-light windows. The chancel has a restored Perpendicular east window with a transom, 10 lights above and 5 below, and remains of a drip- mould. Interior: 3-bay aisle arcade of double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns; chancel arch with 2 orders of hollow chamfer; 3-bay chapel arcade like that of the nave; coffered ceiling to chancel, with moulded beams supported by short wall-posts, roll-moulded secondary beams, and carved bosses; blocked doorway in north wall of chancel; C15 font on a pedestal, octagonal with raised carved shields and incised Latin script on the cardinal sides.
Listing NGR: SE4218522090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342461
- 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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