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.

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.[5]

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.[6] 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][7] 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.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Deaneries". Diocese of Leeds. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "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. ^ a b c Historic England. "Church of All Saints, Batley (Grade I) (1134620)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  6. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner (1959). Yorkshire: The West Riding. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 96. OCLC 30244436.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Effigy East of Porch to All Saints' Church (Grade II) (1184122)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
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