Description

AIREBOROUGH HAW LANE
SE 24 SW
LS 19 (west side)
Yeadon
5/5 Church of St. Andrew
-
- II

Church. By Thomas and Francis Healey, 1890-91. Coursed hammer-dressed
sandstone, slate roof. Nave with south-west bell-turret, south aisle, south
transept coupled with vestry, chancel. In Arts and Crafts Perpendicular
style. Four-bay nave has octagonal bell-turret with wooden traceried
bellcote, ogival cap; in west gable 2 transomed, 3-light windows with
tracery, and a coved niche in rectangular surround above and between these;
moulded sill-band and hoodmoulds to windows run out and carried round as
string-courses; 1st bay of aisle has gable porch with diagonal buttresses,
2-centred arched doorway moulded in 2 orders, above this a square-headed
window of 2 cusped lights with ogival tracery, a carved apex cross, and in
the side wall 2 single-light windows like that in the gable . Nave has
4 irregularly disposed windows of 2, 2, 3 and 2 lights; all with cusped
lights except the last which has ogee tracery. Nave has three clerestorey
windows, all of 3 low round-arched lights. Coupled gables of transept and
vestry each have a wide 4-light window with elaborate Perpendicular-style
tracery. Chancel has two 2-light windows above the string course, with ogee
tracery, and a large 7-light east window with Perpendicular-style tracery.
North side of nave has 3 large 3-light windows in Perpendicular style, the
outer 2 with transoms, a small single-light window to the west of these, a
2-light window to the east.

Interior: arch-braced king-post roof trusses, those in the chancel with
Perpendicular-traceried open work panel; 4-bay aisle arcade of octagonal
columns and 2-centred double-chamfered arches; similar chancel arch, a
foundation stone in the right-hand side dated 1890 in Roman numerals; low
chancel screen and integral pulpit, of sandstone, with traceried panels and
statue incorporated in pulpit, a raised inscription at the right-hand end of
the screen erected 1891 in memory of Major General W. N. Crompton-Stansfield,
Lord of the Manor of Yeadon, (d.1888) and his wife (d.1890).

Listing NGR: SE2078541319

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599616

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