Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, COLTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375130
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, COLTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375130
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, COLTON ROAD
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 MARY, COLTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36350 33582
Details
LEEDS
SE3633 COLTON ROAD, Whitkirk 714-1/37/1246 (West side (off)) 26/09/63 Church of St Mary
GV I
Anglican church. C15, chancel rebuilt 1901 by GF Bodley; restored 1855-56, re-ordered c1990. Perpendicular style. EXTERIOR: heavy nave and aisle parapets projecting on large corbels. Large 3-light pointed N and S aisle windows with buttresses between, and small arched clerestory windows. West tower with diagonal buttresses embattled parapet on corbels and carved obelisk pinnacles, 2-light belfry, squat lead-clad spire. Gabled S porch, vaulted, stone roof. INTERIOR: short nave with arcades of short octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches. MONUMENTS: Sir Robert Scargill, d.1531-2 and wife, d.1546-7: tomb chest with mourners and recumbent alabaster effigies above. Viscount Irwin of Temple Newsam, d.1688 and wife, d.1746, formerly with tomb chest, fine effigies, the Viscount semi-reclining, his wife originally on his left, now at his head, his daughter who died aged 2, originally on his right, now on his left; pilasters and segmental pediment against wall as background by John van Nost erected in 1697, tomb chest removed (probably from chancel) and figures re-grouped against the S aisle wall c1970. John Smeaton (engineer), 1792, wall tablet on N wall of chancel, relief of Eddystone lighthouse, by Robert Cooke, Smeaton was born in the parish and buried under the chancel. Viscount Irwin by Nollekens, 1810, draped woman with large urn. Lord William Gordon by Henry Westmacott 1824, tablet with relief figure in Highland dress. The chancel S chapel was founded as a chantry in 1448-49. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (revised Radcliffe): Yorkshire, The West Riding: London: 1967-: 350, 642).
Listing NGR: SE3635033582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466011
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 350, 642
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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