Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599673

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