All Saints' Church, Batley
History
There was a church at Batley when the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086. Parish records since 1559 are extant.
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. The interior was restored in 1872–73 by Walter Hanstock, who designed churches in Batley and Leeds. 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. The church was Grade I listed on 29 March 1963.
Church
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. 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. The vestry on the north side dates to the mid-1960s.
A recumbent effigy in the churchyard east of the porch was Grade II listed on 13 January 1984.
See also
References
- ^ "Deaneries". Diocese of Leeds. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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
- Media related to All Saints' Church, Batley at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website