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|short description =The '''Church of St Andrew''' was an Anglican church on Pontefract Road in Stourton. The church was consecrated on 23rd July 1898 and was closed around 1973 when the village (along with the rest of the Rothwell Urban District) was transferred to the Leeds Metropolitan Council and the residents of Stourton were displaced to turn it into an industrial area.
|short description =The '''Church of St Andrew''' was an Anglican church on Pontefract Road in Stourton. The church was consecrated on 23rd July 1898 and was closed around 1973 when the village (along with the rest of the Rothwell Urban District) was transferred to the Leeds Metropolitan Council and the residents of Stourton were displaced to turn it into an industrial area.

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The Church of St Andrew was an Anglican church on Pontefract Road in Stourton. The church was consecrated on 23rd July 1898 and was closed around 1973 when the village (along with the rest of the Rothwell Urban District) was transferred to the Leeds Metropolitan Council and the residents of Stourton were displaced to turn it into an industrial area.

 

History

An overgrown patch of land with many fairly young trees growing. A road with a red gate and large concrete blocks is visible in front of the land.
The site of the church in 2019.
A war memorial with a short rectangular base, where names are engraved, and a long cross above it. A reef is laid on top of the base against the cross. The background is overgrown with trees and other plants.
The St Andrew's war memorial, now at the junction of Wakefield Road and Pontefract Road.

Exterior

War memorial

  • A rectangular granite panel with the title "Remember the men of Stourton and Thewaitegate who fell in the great war" above a list of names.

    Front panel

  • A rectangular granite panel with the title "1914" above a list of names.

    Left panel

  • A rectangular granite panel with the title "1918" above a list of names.

    Right panel

  • A rectangular granite panel a list of names and a small back panel attached to it with the title "1939-1945" above more names.

    Back panel

Interior

Notes

References

See also

Places
Buildings Carlton Carlton Hall Farmhouse
Lofthouse Pyemont House
Oulton The Nookin
Robin Hood NE Region Emergency Grid Control Centre
Rothwell Rothwell Castle, Rothwell Empire Cinema, Rothwell One Stop Area Office
Stourton
Thorpe-on-the-Hill Thorpe Hall
Woodlesford No results
Other Parks Rothwell Country Park
Miscellaneous Possible Roman settlement (Rothwell Haigh)

External links

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