Description

SE 63 SW BRAYTON DONCASTER ROAD
(west side)

5/2 Church of St Wilfrid
17.11.66

GV I

Church. C12-C15 with C19 additions. Magnesian limestone ashlar with
slate roof. 4-bay chancel, 3-bay aisled nave, south porch and west
tower. C13 - early C14 chancel: south side has buttress, doorway and
lancet window to third bay, otherwise 2-light windows with Geometrical
tracery. 4-light east window with Curvilinear tracery. Mid C19 vestry
to north. Nave: north aisle retains lancet window to west otherwise
windows with Perpendicular tracery throughout. C19 south porch covers
late C12 doorway with 4 orders of arches with beakhead, medallion and
chevron ornament and roll moulding. 3 orders of nook shafts and
responds with interlaced and figurative decoration. Decorated square
abaci. C12 embattled 3-stage tower with small lancet windows and with a
string-course at cill level and a continuous billet frieze at impost
level which rises above the openings to form hood-moulds. Corbel table
to battlements. Above, a Perpendicular octagon with 2-light bell-
openings crowned by slender octagonal stone spire. Interior: C12
chancel arch of 2 orders, the inner order with chevron moulding and the
outer a plain roll moulding supported by responds with capitals with
interlaced motifs and decorated square abaci. Early C14 nave arcade of
double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. C12 tower arch with
scalloped capitals. In the south wall of the chancel is a partly recut
sedilia with crocket finials, also a C16 chest tomb to Lord D'Arcy
d.1558 and wife Dorothea with effigies mutilated during the
Protectorate. Wall monuments to Robinson and Thomas Morley (1766) and
to Joseph Thompson (d.1809) both by Fishers of York. Stained glass to
east window by H Hughes, 1878. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, The West Riding,
1979, pp144-5. __________________________

Listing NGR: SE6041930996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Wilfred at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17526235

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2