Church of St Wilfrid is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Wilfrid

WRENN ID
salt-pediment-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 October 1998
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Wilfrid, Main Street, Pool, LS21 1LH
OS grid reference
SE 244 452
Coordinates
53.90243, -1.6299
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Wilfrid is a parish church built between 1838 and 1840, with a chancel and porch added in 1891. It was designed by R D Chantrell and constructed from coursed dressed stone, featuring Welsh slate roofs and raised coped gables with kneelers. The church has a plinth and corner buttresses, and its west tower is topped with an octagonal stone spire. Flanking the tower are vestries, and the broad nave includes a semi-circular apse and a wooden gabled porch.

The west tower has a tall, narrow pointed arched doorway, with a single pointed arch bell opening on each face and a large clock face on the south and east sides. The single-storey vestries on either side of the tower have hipped roofs, with the south vestry retaining an original lancet window. The north vestry has been enlarged to create a parish room, featuring 20th-century casement windows. The north front displays four pairs of lancet windows, while the east front, which includes the semi-circular apse added in 1891, has three single lancets linked by a continuous cill band and a dentilated eaves cornice. The south front features a projecting gabled porch, added in 1891, with ornate wooden sides and gable. To the right are three pairs of lancets, and to the left is a single lancet, all separated by shallow buttresses.

Inside, the church has a boarded wooden roof with decorated queen post trusses. The chancel arch is double chamfered and has responds, and the chancel features a complex braced wooden roof. The original wooden pews are complemented by later wooden choir stalls. There is an ornate wooden pulpit and an iron altar rail, along with an early 20th-century organ. The circular stone font has a broad stem and a decorated bowl. A single wall monument to Henry Atkinson, dated 1743, is located to the right of the chancel arch. Most of the windows contain good quality stained glass.

Local climate

Church of St Wilfrid receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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