Church Of All Saints

WEST YORKSHIRE WAKEFIELD 5115 CASTLEFORD CHURCH STREET SE42NW (west side) 1/1 Church of All Saints - - II Church. 1866, by H. F. Bacon. Hammer-dressed sandstone, graduated slate roof. Nave with north and south aisles, south porch, crossing tower, north and south transepts, chancel. Early English style. Five-bay nave and aisles; gabled porch to 3rd bay of south aisle has 2-centred arched outer doorway with a pair of colonnettes to each jamb, wrought iron gates with scrolled decoration; south aisle has coupled lancet windows with quatrefoils above. Buttressed north aisle has a weathered plinth, 2-centred arched windows of 2 cusped lights with Perpendicular tracery, and hoodmoulds with figured stops, except in the westernmost bay, which has a 2-centred arched doorway with moulded surround under a square hoodmould with quatrefoils in the spandrels. Nave has clerestory of coupled cusped lancets; 4-light west window with bar tracery and a multifoil in the head. Buttressed transepts have plate-traceried 3-light windows. Two-stage crossing tower has corner pilasters, 2 weathered bands, 2 small lancets below the lower band, a clockface between them (with a hoodmould), 2 recessed louvred belfry windows with set-in shafts, a band of ball flower ornament below the parapet, and an oversailing parapet pierced with quatrefoils; octagonal stair turret at south east corner, finished as a pinnacle. Two-bay chancel has a cusped lancet in each bay, and 3-light east window with bar tracery and multifoil. Interior: 5-bay arcades of quatrefoil columns with foliated caps (all different), carrying 2-centred arches with 2 orders of moulding; clerestory windows with internal colonnettes which have square cushion capitals (hammer dressed); arch-braced king-post roof supported by fluted triangular corbels; south aisle roof re-using timbers of former church; tower crossing of double- chamfered arches rising from short colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals; at east end of north aisle, part of wooden C15 screen with Perpendicular tracery (ex situ).

Listing NGR: SE4256025758