All Saints' Church | |
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53°42′57″N1°38′10″W / 53.715889°N 1.636198°W | |
OS grid reference | SE2459021524 |
Location | Stocks Lane, Batley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Anglican |
Website | www |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade I |
Designated | 29 March 1963 |
Style | |
Completed | c. 1485 |
Administration | |
Province | York |
Diocese | Leeds |
Episcopal area | Wakefield |
Archdeaconry | Pontefract |
Deanery | Dewsbury [1] |
Parish | 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.
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]
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]