| Description | Church by Thomas and Francis Healey, built 1890 91. Constructed of coursed hammer dressed sandstone, with a slate roof. Nave with south west bell turret, south aisle, south transept coupled with vestry, chancel. In Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. Four bay nave has octagonal bell turret with wooden traceried bellcote, ogival cap; in west gable 2 transomed, 3 light windows with tracery, and a coved niche in rectangular surround above and between these; moulded sill band and hoodmoulds to windows run out and carried round as string courses; 1st bay of aisle has gable porch with diagonal buttresses, 2 centred arched doorway moulded in 2 orders, above this a square headed window of 2 cusped lights with ogival tracery, a carved apex cross, and in the side wall 2 single light windows like that in the gable . Nave has 4 irregularly disposed windows of 2, 2, 3 and 2 lights; all with cusped lights except the last which has ogee tracery. Nave has three clerestorey windows, all of 3 low round arched lights. Coupled gables of transept and vestry each have a wide 4 light window with elaborate Perpendicular style tracery. Chancel has two 2 light windows above the string course, with ogee tracery, and a large 7 light east window with Perpendicular style tracery. North side of nave has 3 large 3 light windows in Perpendicular style, the outer 2 with transoms, a small single light window to the west of these, a 2 light window to the east.
Interior: arch braced king post roof trusses, those in the chancel with Perpendicular traceried open work panel; 4 bay aisle arcade of octagonal columns and 2 centred double chamfered arches; similar chancel arch, a foundation stone in the right hand side dated 1890 in Roman numerals; low chancel screen and integral pulpit, of sandstone, with traceried panels and statue incorporated in pulpit, a raised inscription at the right hand end of the screen erected 1891 in memory of Major General W. N. Crompton Stansfield, Lord of the Manor of Yeadon, (d.1888) and his wife (d.1890).
(Text edited from English Heritage's National Heritage List of England, 1988)
A condition report of St Andrew's Church was made in 2006 by J Johncock of the Council for the Care of Churches. A copy of the report is on file in the HER. |