St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury
| Horbury Church | |
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| The Parish Church of St Peter, Horbury | |
Horbury Parish Church
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| Coordinates: 53°39′40″N 1°33′17″W / 53.6610°N 1.5548°W | |
| Location | Horbury, West Yorkshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Traditional Anglo-Catholic |
| Website | Parish website |
| History | |
| Founded | Anglo Saxon origins |
| Dedication | St Peter and St Leonard |
| Consecrated | 1794 (present church) |
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| Status | Parish Church |
| Heritage designation | Grade I listed building |
| Architect(s) | John Carr |
| Style | Georgian (architecture) |
| Groundbreaking | 1790 |
| Completed | 1794 |
| Construction cost | £8,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Sandstone |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Horbury |
| Diocese | Wakefield |
| Province | York |
St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury is in Horbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church and part of the Wakefield deanery in the archdeaconry of Pontefract, diocese of Wakefield and commonly known as St Peter's. It is on the site of a Norman church built in about 1100 and probably an Anglo-Saxon church before that. The present church, by local architect John Carr, was completed in 1794 It is a prominent local landmark and has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.
Horbury was a chapelry of All Saints Church in Wakefield and has probably had a chapel since before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Earl Warenne, Lord of the Manor of Wakefield built a church in the Norman style in 1106. It had a tower, nave and small chancel.
In 1509 William Amyas of Horbury Hall left money to the "belles of Horbury Church". The "Devil's Knell" was tolled after midnight on Christmas morning, the tenor bell tolled for an hour, then four fours were struck followed by a strike for every year since the birth of Christ. This tradition was discontinued but survives in Dewsbury.
The parish registers record the burial of two soldiers following the Battle of Wakefield.
In the late 1780s John Carr, son of a Horbury stonemason and former Lord Mayor of York, offered to build a new church at his own expense. It cost £8,000 (equivalent to £860,000 in 2015}), plus a further £2,000 for the bells and organ (equivalent to £220,000 in 2015}). The foundation stone for the new church was laid in 1790 and it was opened in 1794.
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