Church of St Botolph
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHAPEL STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225755
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHAPEL STREET
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-10-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/01244/19
- Rights:
- © Mr Geoff Batchelor. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225755
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHAPEL 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 BOTOLPH, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHAPEL STREET
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 49978 24100
Details
KNOTTINGLEY CHAPEL STREET SE42SE (west side) 5/33 Church of St. Botolph 18.12.1963 GV II Parish church. 1750 rebuild of Norman chapel, with west tower added 1873, chancel rebuilt 1886. Magnesian limestone (nave and chancel both rendered), stone slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch, chancel. Rectangular 4-bay nave in simple classical style has round-headed windows with imposts and keystones, and 2nd bay has a square flat-roofed porch beneath the window, with similar round-headed outer doorway and side-wall windows. Four-stage tower with angle-buttresses to 1/2-height and set-back upper stages has in each side a single lancet to the 1st stage, a circular window to the 2nd, a large clock face to the 3rd, a pair of louvred lancets to the belfry stage, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. Three-bay chancel has lancets, and a 2-centred arched east window of 3 lights with bar tracery and a wheel in the head. Interior: C18 nave is a single vessel with wide round-headed chancel arch (and was formerly galleried at the west end and north sides); west wall incorporates the deeply-splayed reveal of a blocked round-headed Norman window surviving from the narrower former chapel (see History). Numerous wall monuments including: in north wall of chancel, a sandstone tablet to William Savile of Criddleing Park (d.1691) with pedimented aedicule, a carved, bird in the pediment, incised skull-and-crossbones in each corner, and full inscription (in Latin); in south wall of chancel, 2 marble tablets with pedimented aedicules (i) to Arthur Ingram (d.1733) with painted inscription (ii) to Revd. Mr. Goodricke Ingram, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, (d.1755), with broken pediment, each pediment surmounted by a coat of arms; in round-headed panels between windows in south wall, 2 obelisk wall monuments (i) to Lydia, wife of John Banks (d.1792), with bas-relief urn on the obelisk, and (ii) to Ann, daughter of John Banks and Lydia his wife (d.1781), with bas relief of child weeping over urn. History: built by Henry de Lacy, lord of the manor, c.1150, as chapel of ease to All Saints, Pontefract; rebuilt in C18, with endowments of Ingram family of Temple Newsam (then lords of the manor of Knottingley); galleries and box pews removed in 1887.
Listing NGR: SE4997824100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422264
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 04-Jun-2026 at 12:21:23.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.