Church of All Saints

Church of All Saints, South Baileygate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1313269
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:: Church of All Saints, South Baileygate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1313269
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:: Church of All Saints, South Baileygate

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of All Saints, South Baileygate

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 46266 22411

Details

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SE 4622 SW 6/60

PONTEFRACT SOUTH BAILEYGATE (north-west side) Church of All Saints

29.7.50

II*

Church, partly ruinous. C14 and C15 with alterations of 1838 and late 1960s. C19 work by Chantrell, C20 work by G G Pace. Ashlar sandstone, partly rendered, C20 brick; Welsh slate roofs. Cruciform plan: ruined aisled nave with north and south porches and C20 inserted nave; north and south transepts restored in C19; crossing tower with octagon; ruined aisled chancel with C19 inserted sanctuary. Decorated and Perpendicular style. South aisle of nave: four bays; in second bay, porch: buttresses flank continously-moulded pointed-arched opening with hoodmould; offset half-way up level of doorway; coping to flat roof; to first bay, buttress to left and pointed window opening; bays to right of porch have been lost.

Nave south clerestorey: four window of paired trefoiled lights with continuous hoodmould. West end of nave: buttresses flank wide four-centred arched doorway which breaks up into sill of large, formerly Perpendicular, window, formerly with hoodmould; two-light opening to roof space. North nave clerestorey: as south. North nave aisle: in second bay from west, two storey porch, not projecting much from wall, with double-chamfered continuously-moulded pointed-arched doorway, barrel-vaulted portal and continuously-moulded inner doorway with rolls to pointed arch; single light on first floor; window flanked by stepped buttresses. North transept: rendered, north side: stepped buttresses flank pointed doorway with hoodmould; above three-light mullioned and transomed pointed window. South transept: early C19; on south side, stepped buttresses flank pointed doorway with hoodmould, above, five-light Perpendicular window; two two-light windows east and west.

Central tower: each side of belfry stage has paired windows, each of two trefoiled lights, with quatrefoil in pointed arch above and hoodmoulds, the openings being deeply undercut; pierced parapet with corner pinnacles; octagon has smaller paired tre-foiled lights with hoodmould to cardinal points; crenellated parapet above ban, one pinnacle to north; west face of belfry has, at base of openings, clock face in ogee crocketed canopy, about two blind quatrefoils, flanked by blind gablets; clock face to east. Chancel, three bays: south chapel has central doorway flanked by windows with reticulated tracery, east window was Perpendicular; little remains of the rest of the chancel, although a fragment of the south arcade western respond seems to be C12.

Interior: Nave has arcades with octagonal piers and double-chamfered pointed arches; on inside of north wall, tracery of large Perpendicular window, probably from the west window; in two eastern bays, brick C20 inserted nave with five medieval heads set hight up, and with board-marked concrete eaves; inside it are Victorian pews; in south chancel aisle, ogee-headed tomb niche; north wall also has tomb recess, chancel has C19 inserted sanctuary of canted plan, inside which is blind arcading below windows.

Listing NGR: SE4626622411

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Legacy System number:: 342699
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.