Country England Completed 1872 in current form Status Parish church Province Province of York Architect George Edmund Street | Denomination Church of England Phone +44 1937 842454 Diocese Anglican Diocese of Leeds Heritage designation Listed building | |
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Location Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire Architectural type mixed, with Gothic Revival elements Materials Magnesian limestone with red tile and Welsh slate roofs Address Church Causeway, Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, LS23 7AH, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Similar Hurst Spit, Coronation Chair, Kinniside Stone Circle | ||
All Saints' Church in Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
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History
The church is of twelfth century origin (the south door being the sole remaining aspect of this era); although is mentioned in the earlier Domesday Book of 1086. with a fifteenth century tower; the remainder of the church was built between 1871 and 1872 to designs by G.E. Street.
Architectural style
The church is of dressed magnesian limestone with a red tile and Welsh slate roof. The church has a fifteenth century west tower with offset diagonal buttresses, a three light west window and large square sundial, gargoyles to the north and south with a shield beneath the papapet. The south porch is of twelfth century origin. There is a four bay nave of gothic revival style, a two bay chancel and a north vestry. The church has an ornate lychgate on the southern side of its boundaries.