Church Of St Andrew

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