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SK38NW ST ANDREW'S ROAD 784-1/5/674 (South East side) 28/06/73 Church of St Andrew

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Parish church. 1869. By JB Mitchell-Withers. Choir vestry 1913, baptistry 1920. Restored 1955. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. C13 Gothic Revival style. PLAN: chancel with side chapels, clergy and choir vestries, north-east tower with spire, transepts, north porch, nave with clerestory and aisles. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, sillband, coped gables, angle buttresses. Pointed arch windows throughout. Chancel has 5-light window to east, with single shafts, and to south, a 2-light window. Hipped south chapel has 2 lancets to east. Smaller north chapel has a wheel window to east. Clergy vestry has a truncated 2-light window to north, with plate tracery, and a small 2-light window to east. Choir vestry, to south-east, Perpendicular style, has south porch flanked to left by 2 single lancets, and to east a transomed 3-light window. North-east tower, 2 stages, has short angle buttresses and string courses. First stage has to east a shouldered doorway with single shafts under a crocketed gable, and a clock to north and east. Second stage has corner shafts and corbel table. On 3 sides, a chamfered lancet opening with shafts, containing a 2-light bell opening with central shaft. Octagonal broach spire has a single tier of gabled lucarnes with double lancets. Transepts have 4-light plate traceried windows in the gables. South transept has single lancets to east and west, and flat-roofed porch to south-east. North transept has single lancet to west only. Nave clerestory has 4 round windows on each side, with plate tracery. West end has additional C20 buttresses and a 4-light window with plate tracery. Below it, 2 flat-headed windows to the baptistry. 4 bay aisles have 2-light windows and similar windows in their west ends. North aisle has a cross-gabled porch in the third bay with double chamfered doorway with shafts and a 2-light window in each side. INTERIOR: chancel has double chamfered arch with hoodmould and triple shaft imposts. Perpendicular style screen with cross. Arch braced principal rafter roof with traceried spandrels, wall shafts and corbels, all painted. On either side, a single arch and wall paintings. Nave and transepts have arch braced roofs with wall shafts. Transepts have arches with wheel windows above, and on their east sides, arches and single doors. North arch has Perpendicular glazed screen, south arch has organ. Both have stained glass windows c1871. Nave has 4 bay arcades with round piers and ringed minor shafts, stiff-leaf capitals and keel moulded arches with hoodmoulds. Clerestory has sillband and linked hoodmoulds. West end has segment-headed baptistry recess. Aisles have segmental eastern arches, lean-to roofs and stained glass windows late C19 and early C20. FITTINGS include chancel windows by Powell Bros. of Leeds, C19 D-shaped alabaster pulpit, round alabaster font with marble shafts, and traceried stalls with poppyheads. The baptistry was erected as a war memorial, 1920 (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 457).

Listing NGR: SK3371685254

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