All Saints' Church, Batley

All Saints' Church is the parish church of the town of Batley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It dates to the 15th century, was restored in the 19th century and is a Grade I listed building.

All Saints' Church
53.715889°N 1.636198°W / 53.715889; -1.636198
OS grid referenceSE2459021524
LocationStocks Lane, Batley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
Websitewww.batleyparishchurch.org.uk
History
StatusParish church
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade I
Designated29 March 1963
Style
Completedc. 1485
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseLeeds
Episcopal areaWakefield
ArchdeaconryPontefract
DeaneryDewsbury[1]
ParishBatley

History

There was a church at Batley when the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086.[2][3] Parish records since 1559 are extant.[4]

Adam de Oxenhope de Copley had a chantry chapel added to the south side of the church in 1334. The present building was completed around 1485, but incorporates elements from the 14th-century church.[2] The interior was restored in 1872–73 by Walter Hanstock, who designed churches in Batley and Leeds.[5] A vestry was subsequently added, and replaced in the 1960s. The first organ was installed in the chantry chapel in 1830; the present organ dates to 1965.[2] The church was Grade I listed on 29 March 1963.[6]

Church

The church is stone, with Decorated features including the south arcade. It has a porch on the south side, a nave with clerestory and north and south aisles, and a Perpendicular west tower with tall corner pinnacles and a corbelled-out battlemented parapet that is characteristic of the Leeds area.[7] The east window is Perpendicular. There is a Lady chapel on the south and on the north a chapel dedicated to St Anne with the late-15th century tomb of Sir William and Lady Anne Mirfield, with alabaster effigies.[5][8] The vestry on the north side dates to the mid-1960s.[2]

A recumbent effigy in the churchyard east of the porch was Grade II listed on 13 January 1984.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Deaneries". Diocese of Leeds. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. "History". The Parish Church of All Saints, Batley. Archived from the original on 29 October 2008.
  3. "Batley Parish Church". Find a Church. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  4. "Batley All Saints, parish records". National Archives. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  5. "Church of All Saints: A Grade I Listed Building in Batley, Kirklees". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  6. Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1134620)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  7. Nikolaus Pevsner (1959). Yorkshire: The West Riding. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 96. OCLC 30244436.
  8. Michael Sheard (1894). Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York: Historical, Topographical, Ecclesiastical, Testamentary, and Genealogical. Worksop: White. pp. 132–35. OCLC 1152620782.
  9. Historic England. "Effigy East of Porch to All Saints' Church (1184122)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
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