St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Traditional Catholic |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Dedication | St Wilfrid of Ripon |
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| Status | Active |
| Functional status | Parish church |
| Heritage designation | Grade I listed |
| Designated | 4 February 1975 |
| Architect(s) | Temple Moore |
| Years built | 1904– |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St. Wilfrid, Harrogate |
| Deanery | Harrogate |
| Archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Richmond and Craven |
| Episcopal area | Ripon |
| Diocese | Diocese of Leeds |
| Province | Province of York |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | The Rt Revd Tony Robinson (AEO) |
| Rector | Fr Gary Waddington SSC |
| Honorary priest(s) | Fr Tim Burrell |
| Laity | |
| Director of music | Leonard sanderman |
| Organist(s) | Timothy Gray |
| Churchwarden(s) | Mike Whittaker and Andrew Haslam |
St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate is an Anglican parish church in the town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building, the only such building in Harrogate. It was designed by the architect Temple Lushington Moore and is his most famous work. It is designated as a "Major Parish Church" and is the 38th largest parish church in England.
The current church building was started in 1904 and the Nave and Baptistry were dedicated for use by 1908. Two sisters, Elizabeth Sophia and Jean Trotter gave large donations to fund the completion. The first gift of £10,000 (equivalent to £865,494 in 2015), allowed the nave to be completed by 1914.
Temple Moore died in 1920 and a bequest from Jean Trotter in 1924 of £32,000 (equivalent to £1,645,979 in 2015), allowed the completion of the north and south transepts. The work was completed in 1927 by Temple Moore's son-in-law, Leslie Moore. In 1928, the organ was installed in the North Transepts.
William Gunn left £9,000 (equivalent to £563,438 in 2015), in his will of 1932 and this allowed the church hall to be built. The hall features a lamella roof, the only example of such a construction in the United Kingdom.
In 1935, the generosity of Sir William Nicholson allowed the Lady Chapel to be built. While most of the work after Temple Moore's death in 1920 had been sympathetic to his sketches, Leslie Moore's design for the Lady Chapel was radically different from the small chapel proposed by this father-in-law.
The church is widely considered to be Temple Moore's greatest work. It subtly dominates the Harrogate skyline, and Pevsner considers it to be "the biggest and by far the best of Harrogate's churches, the masterwork of Temple Moore". Sir Aston Webb highlights its national importance, and goes as far as to say it is "perhaps the most beautiful of all parish churches I know" (Yorkshire Post, 8 June 1935). The church is subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem "Perp. Revival i' the North", in which its elegant grandeur and traditional liturgy are identified. Elsewhere, he remarks how the building seems vast in every direction, enhanced by what he describes as "Edwardian vistas".
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