Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133750
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133750
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNLEY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Todmorden
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93610 24144
Details
SD 9324 TODMORDEN (former M.B.) BURNLEY ROAD
(south side)
6/49 Church of St Mary
(formerly listed as Church of
St Mary, Church Street)
22.11.66
G.V. II
Church. 1770 with chancel added in 1896. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate
roof. West tower, nave, south porch and chancel. Tower may have earlier
masonry to base of 3 plain stages defined by string course. 1st stage has
pointed arched window with Gothic glazing and sash. Hoodmould with carved head
terminations. 2nd stage has small arched light to each face with semi-circular
arched belfry window with collonnettes set within a recess. 3rd stage is
embattled and has clock face. Weather-vane. 5-bay nave with 2 tiers of windows
in the same plane. A B C C B A. Outer bays have Venetian windows with raised
impost and keystone. 2 central bays have tall semi-circular arched windows with
impost and keystone flanked by doorways with rusticated surround and false
voussoirs and cornice. The left door covered by gabled porch with semi-circular
arched doorway with impost and keystone (late C19). The right door blocked to
form window. Over doors, semi-circular arched window with impost and keystone
with stepped glazing. Quoins, cornice. North side of nave has 5 bays of 3-light
double chamfered mullioned windows. Gothic Revival Chancel with gabled
transeptal chapel with circular window with tracery. Diagonal buttresses to
east gable. Tall east window with pointed arch and pannel tracery.
Interior: Barn-like nave with fling-post roof with rough overlapping purlins.
West gallery with panelled pews and fine oak balustrade, supported on 2 stone
columns. Loosely attached (to appearance) is the Chancel. Organ recess. 2-bay
hammer-beam roof. Screen in free Gothic is a War Memorial. The east window,
showing the Crucifixion, is a memorial to John Fielden of Dobroyd and is by
Kempe. Bell of 1603 and clock installed in tower in 1860. Originally a chapel-
of-ease of St. Chad's Church Rochdale, built on land given by the Radcliffe
family c.1476, of nearby Todmorden Hall (q.v.). N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West
Riding, (London, 1979), p.521.
Listing NGR: SD9361024144
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339032
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 521
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2645
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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