Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313246
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313246
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH 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 ALL SAINTS, CHURCH 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 42560 25758
Details
WEST YORKSHIRE WAKEFIELD 5115 CASTLEFORD CHURCH STREET SE42NW (west side) 1/1 Church of All Saints - - II Church. 1866, by H. F. Bacon. Hammer-dressed sandstone, graduated slate roof. Nave with north and south aisles, south porch, crossing tower, north and south transepts, chancel. Early English style. Five-bay nave and aisles; gabled porch to 3rd bay of south aisle has 2-centred arched outer doorway with a pair of colonnettes to each jamb, wrought iron gates with scrolled decoration; south aisle has coupled lancet windows with quatrefoils above. Buttressed north aisle has a weathered plinth, 2-centred arched windows of 2 cusped lights with Perpendicular tracery, and hoodmoulds with figured stops, except in the westernmost bay, which has a 2-centred arched doorway with moulded surround under a square hoodmould with quatrefoils in the spandrels. Nave has clerestory of coupled cusped lancets; 4-light west window with bar tracery and a multifoil in the head. Buttressed transepts have plate-traceried 3-light windows. Two-stage crossing tower has corner pilasters, 2 weathered bands, 2 small lancets below the lower band, a clockface between them (with a hoodmould), 2 recessed louvred belfry windows with set-in shafts, a band of ball flower ornament below the parapet, and an oversailing parapet pierced with quatrefoils; octagonal stair turret at south east corner, finished as a pinnacle. Two-bay chancel has a cusped lancet in each bay, and 3-light east window with bar tracery and multifoil. Interior: 5-bay arcades of quatrefoil columns with foliated caps (all different), carrying 2-centred arches with 2 orders of moulding; clerestory windows with internal colonnettes which have square cushion capitals (hammer dressed); arch-braced king-post roof supported by fluted triangular corbels; south aisle roof re-using timbers of former church; tower crossing of double- chamfered arches rising from short colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals; at east end of north aisle, part of wooden C15 screen with Perpendicular tracery (ex situ).
Listing NGR: SE4256025758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342463
- 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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