Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1963. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- drifting-bastion-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1963
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Pontefract Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 480 241
- Coordinates
- 53.71159, -1.2737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a church with elements dating back to the 12th century and around 1500. It was restored in the 19th century and moved to its current location with alterations in 1952-3. The church is constructed from magnesian limestone blocks, now cladding an internal structure of modern common brick, and has a slate roof. It consists of a nave incorporating a west tower, a north porch, a south aisle (originally a north aisle), and a chancel with a south chapel.
The four-bay nave has a gabled porch on its north side, protecting a late 12th-century two-centred arched doorway with two orders of chamfer and colonnettes featuring waterleaf capitals, and a hood mould with nail-head decoration. A relocated former south doorway now occupies this position. To the left of the porch is a 19th-century arched two-light window, and to its left a 15th-century square-headed four-light window with ogee-traceried heads. To the right of the porch is a cusped lancet, and further right two small lancets at different levels, forming a stair turret to the tower. The tower has a round-headed west window on its lower stage, and its upper stage, which breaks through the nave, has square belfry louvres, a dripmould, and an embattled parapet. The chancel has two two-light windows and a three-light east window, all of similar design. The south aisle, originally the north aisle, has 19th-century windows of a similar style; a modern, flat-roofed vestry is attached to the east end and is not considered of special interest.
Inside, the round-headed tower arch has moulded imposts, and a 12th-century round-headed west window with a splayed reveal is found in the outer wall of the tower. The two-centred double-chamfered chancel arch has moulded capitals to the responds. Two arcades, a three-bay aisle arcade and a two-bay chapel arcade, feature octagonal columns with moulded capitals and two-centred double-chamfered arches. A tub font with reeded decoration, perhaps dating back to the 12th century, is present. Wall monuments include a fine carved cartouche to Eleanor Crowle (died 1765) in the south aisle, featuring an angel head on the apron, and a wall tablet to George Crowle (died 1744), within an aedicule with a broken pediment and apron, also ornamented with an angel head.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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