Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, KIRKGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133546
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, KIRKGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133546
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, KIRKGATE
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 PAUL, KIRKGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 14396 37538
Details
SE 13 NW SHIPLEY KIRKGATE (north side) Shipley
2/101 Church of St. Paul 24 June 1976
GV II
Commissioners' church. 1823-25. By John Oates of Halifax. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Perpendicular style. 5-bay nave and aisle under one roof, small chancel, west tower. Tall, 3-stage square west tower with west door, under deep square hoodmould. The west window is of three lights. 2-light windows to 2nd stage. 6-light transomed and traceried bell-chamber openings with clock-face attached. Pierced crenellated parapet and tall crocketed corner pinnacles. To north and south sides of the tower is a former 2-storey porch. The entrances are now part-blocked to form windows. The buttressed aisles have tall, 6-light, mullioned and transomed windows with cusped lights and intersecting tracery. Crenellated parapets. The lower single-bay chancel has a large 14-light transomed east window with Perpendicular tracery. Above the window is a square, elaborately detailed plaque with shield, helm and crest. Octagonal corner towers to east end of chancel. Single-storey porch to each side, all with crenellated parapets.
Interior: 5-bay arcade to north and south on octagonal piers. Compartmental roof with plastered timber ribs and small bosses. North and south galleries, the panelled and traceried fronts of which were added in 1875. The west gallery has been renewed and has screen below to form separate, full width hall at rear. Elaborate and finely-carved stone pulpit of c1876-80. The lower part has a central pedestal with figures in niches and is splayed to support the wooden, panelled and traceried upper part. Elegant carved stone open stair. Octagonal marble font with traceried panels. East window by F. Barnett of York 1858-60, partly obscured by later panelled reredos. Later C19 commemorative glass to aisles.
Listing NGR: SE1439637538
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337498
- 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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