Description

GARGRAVE CHURCH STREET
SD 95 SW (east side)

5/62 Church of St Andrew

10.9.54

GV II

Parish Church. West tower probably C16, rest 1852 by Rhode Hawkins. Sandstone
ashlar, yellowish to the tower and red to the remainder. Green slate roofs
except to aisles and tower, of lead. Nave, chancel, west tower, clasping
aisles, and north and south porches. The style is perpendicular throughout.
West tower has diagonal buttresses, battlements and eight pinnacles. Three-
light windows including that to west, which is surmounted by an empty niche with
cresting, below which is an inscription. The aisles are of seven bays and the
chancel is of two, all with 2-light pointed windows, whereas the clerestory has
2-light straight-headed windows. Inside there is a 6-bay arcade and the nave
roof is of an arch braced open type carried on angel corbels. That to the
chancel is similar but enriched. Stained glass throughout, the 3 east windows
and four chancel windows being a set of 1854 by Capronnier of Brussels. Those
in the chancel are of saints, and the remainder show the Resurection Crucifixion
and Baptism.

Listing NGR: SD9319553911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Andrew at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26425037

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings