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Latitude: 53.6565 / 53°39'23"N
Longitude: -1.5438 / 1°32'37"W
OS Eastings: 430244
OS Northings: 417871
OS Grid: SE302178
Mapcode National: GBR KVN4.KZ
Mapcode Global: WHCB5.8C27
Plus Code: 9C5WMF44+HF
Entry Name: Church of St Mary Virgin
Listing Date: 15 February 1966
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313232
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342500
ID on this website: 101313232
Location: St Mary's Church, Horbury Junction, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4
County: Wakefield
Electoral Ward/Division: Horbury and South Ossett
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Horbury
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Horbury Junction St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
SE31NW HORBURY DAW LANE
(east side), Horbury
Junction
7/7 Church of St Mary the
15.2.66 Virgin.
- II
Church. 1890-3. By Bodley and Garner of London. The builders were H. R.
Franklin of Oxford, at a cost of £8,000. South chancel chapel enlarged 1927.
Coursed squared stone with limestone ashlar dressings, off-sets and
bellcotes. 5-bay nave with lean-to aisles, bellcotes, south porch and north
door. 2-bay chancel with north vestry and south chapel. In Decorated style.
2-light nave windows with reticulated tracery. The south side is buttressed,
the north doorway may have had a porch. 3-light square-headed windows to the
chapel with traceried heads. Large 3-light east window with reticulated
tracery and 3 ashlar panels below with shields. At the west end two deep
reducing buttresses joined by an arch at the top support a square bellcote
with pyramidal ashlar roof. A more simple bellcote is at the east end of the
nave.
Good interior with 5-bay heavily-moulded arcade to north and south on
filleted quatrefoil piers. 2-bay arcade between chancel and chapel. Wagon
roof to nave and chancel divided into panels by ribs with bosses. Tall
chancel screen with coved canopy. Well carved octagonal font erected by J.
0. Greaves and his wife Jane in thanksgiving to the Rev. Canon Sharp of
Horbury (inscription on west wall). Excellent elaborately-carved oak font
canopy of 1914, erected by Emily Margaret Harrison in memory of her brother
Alfred William Brown Watson, MA, priest, vicar of Horbury and previously
chaplain to H. M. Forces. d.February 24th 1912 (inscription on west wall).
Stained glass by Kempe (Pevsner).
K. Taylor. Wakefield District Heritage. 1975. Published by Wakefield EAHY
Committee.
Listing NGR: SE3024417871
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