All Saints' Church, Batley
| All Saints' Church | |
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| 53°42′57″N 1°38′10″W / 53.715889°N 1.636198°W | |
| OS grid reference | SE2459021524 |
| Location | Stocks Lane, Batley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Designated | 29 March 1963 |
| Style | |
| Completed | c. 1485 |
| Administration | |
| Province | York |
| Diocese | Leeds |
| Episcopal area | Wakefield |
| Archdeaconry | Pontefract |
| Deanery | Dewsbury[1] |
| Parish | Batley |
All Saints' Church is the parish church of the town of Batley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It dates to the 15th century, was restored in the 19th century and is a Grade I listed building.
History[edit]
There was a church at Batley when the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086.[2][3] Parish records since 1559 are extant.[4]
Adam de Oxenhope de Copley had a chantry chapel added to the south side of the church in 1334. The present building was completed around 1485, but incorporates elements from the 14th-century church.[2] The interior was restored in 1872–73 by Walter Hanstock, who designed churches in Batley and Leeds.[5] A vestry was subsequently added, and replaced in the 1960s. The first organ was installed in the chantry chapel in 1830; the present organ dates to 1965.[2] The church was Grade I listed on 29 March 1963.[6]
Church[edit]
The church is stone, with Decorated features including the south arcade. It has a porch on the south side, a nave with clerestory and north and south aisles, and a Perpendicular west tower with tall corner pinnacles and a corbelled-out battlemented parapet that is characteristic of the Leeds area.[7] The east window is Perpendicular. There is a Lady chapel on the south and on the north a chapel dedicated to St Anne with the late-15th century tomb of Sir William and Lady Anne Mirfield, with alabaster effigies.[5][8] The vestry on the north side dates to the mid-1960s.[2]
A recumbent effigy in the churchyard east of the porch was Grade II listed on 13 January 1984.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Deaneries". Diocese of Leeds. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d "History". The Parish Church of All Saints, Batley. Archived from the original on 29 October 2008.
- ^ "Batley Parish Church". Find a Church. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ "Batley All Saints, parish records". National Archives. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Church of All Saints: A Grade I Listed Building in Batley, Kirklees". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1134620)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner (1959). Yorkshire: The West Riding. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 96. OCLC 30244436.
- ^ Michael Sheard (1894). Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York: Historical, Topographical, Ecclesiastical, Testamentary, and Genealogical. Worksop: White. pp. 132–35. OCLC 1152620782.
- ^ Historic England. "Effigy East of Porch to All Saints' Church (1184122)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
External links[edit]
Media related to All Saints' Church, Batley at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
