Church of St Wilfrid
CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385759
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385759
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Wilfrid
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, MAIN 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 WILFRID, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Pool
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2441545203
Details
SE 24 NW
1495/1/10012
POOL
MAIN STREET
(West side)
CHURCH OF ST WILFRID
II
Parish church. 1838-40, with chancel and porch added in 1891. Designed by R D Chantrell. Coursed dressed stone with Welsh slate roofs and raised coped gables with kneelers. Plinth, corner buttress. West tower with octagonal stone spire and flanking vestries, broad nave with added semi-circular aspe and wooden gabled porch. West tower front has tall, narrow pointed arched doorway with above a single pointed arch bell opening to each face, with large clock face on south and east sides. Above octagonal broached stone spire. Either side of tower single storey vestries with hipped roofs, that to south with original lancet to south front. North vestry has been enlarged to form a parish-room with C20 casement windows. North front has 4 pairs of lancet windows. East front has semi-circular apse, added 1891, with three single lancets linked by a continuous cill band, and dentilated eaves cornice. South front has projecting gabled porch, added 1891, with ornate wooden sides and gable. To right three pairs of lancets and to left a single lancet, all with shallow buttresses between. INTERIOR has boarded wooden roof with decorated f queen post trusses. Double chamfered chancel arch with responds, complex braced wooden roof to chancel. Original wooden pews with later wooden choir stalls. Ornate wooden pulpit. Iron altar rail. Early C20 organ. Circular stone font with broad stem and decorated bowl. Single wall monument to Henry Atkinson, 1743, to right of chancel arch. Most windows have good quality stained glass.
Listing NGR: SE2441545203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471169
- 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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