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WEST BRETTON
HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
Bretton Church

(Formerly listed as PARK ROAD (south side, off) Church in Bretton Park)

22.11.66

GV
II*

Church. 1744 by Sir William Wentworth, for his own estate. Ashlar. Stone slate roof. Five-bay nave and chancel with two-bay addition to north containing the organ. In Classical style. The three bays of the symmetrical west front are framed and separated by giant Tuscan pilasters with exaggerated entasis. They support a moulded band beneath the pediment. Blind central doorway with moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets. Niche to each side. Small first-floor sash windows of six, eight and six lights. Round-arched window in tympanum of pediment. Cylindrical bell chamber, on a broad square base, with a domed top. Round, louvred openings. The south side is symmetrical with a doorway to left and right (the latter blind) each with moulded architrave and cornice and blind panel above. Three 24-pane fixed lights. Plinth, sill band, moulded band at high level and moulded eaves cornice. The east front has a large well-detailed and proportioned Tuscan Venetian window. Along the base is a series of 10 marble memorial tablets to members of the Wentworth and Beaumont families including:

Thomas Richard Beaumont d.July 31st 1829 aged 72
Diana Beaumont d.Aug 10th 1831 aged 67
Thomas Blackett Beaumont d.July 10th 1792 aged 67
Sir William Wentworth Bart. d.March 1st 1763 aged 77
Wentworth Blacket Beaumont
(1st Baron Allendale) b.1829 d.13th Feb 1907

Interior: plain. Small gallery at rear with wooden panelled front, with three round-arched openings to each floor. Panelled dado. Bracketed ceiling cornice. Tall, straight-backed, panelled pews.

N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967.

D. Linstrum. West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture. 1978 Bretton College Archive.

Listing NGR: SE2895212896

External Links

• Church In Bretton Park at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17550136

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)