Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, BURNLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1133752
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, BURNLEY ROAD
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- 2000-12-06
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1133752
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, BURNLEY ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 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 93498 24424
Details
SD 9324 TODMORDEN (former M.B.) BURNLEY ROAD (OFF) (south side)
6/52 Christ Church
22.11.66
G.V. II
Commissioners church. 1832 by L. Vulliamy. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof and north porch. Early English Lancet style. 5-bay nave. Angle buttresses, plinth, string, corbel table. 2-light windows with offset buttresses set between. Porch in 3rd bay of nave has string which rises over pointed arched doorway. Pyramidal finials with cross to centre of parapet. 2-light clerestorey windows. Finials to corners of aisles and clerestorey. West tower is embraced by canted walls for staircase to gallery. 3 stage embattled tower has clasping buttresses. Pointed arched west door. 2nd stage has stepped window of 3 tall lights. 3rd stage has 2-light belfry with to west face clock set within blind arcade. Buttresses continue to form finials. Shallow chancel has angle buttresses to east only. East window of 3 tall stepped lights set within a pointed arch with hoodmould. Interior: Nave has pointed arched arcade with octagonal columns and moulded capitals. Slightly cambered wooden roof. Chancel is thrown out a further 2 bays, and has waggon roof, and elaborate opus sectile mosaic with texts invoking the Redeemer and companies of saints amongst other scenes. Wrought iron chancel screen and gates. Gallery on 3 sides. Late C19 pews throughout. F. Kershaw, Todmorden Parish Church, (Todmorden 1982). N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1979), p.521.
Listing NGR: SD9349824424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339036
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kershaw, F, Todmorden Parish Church, (1982)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 521
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