TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133792
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address:: TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133792
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 13980 25369

Details

BRIGHOUSE WAKEFIELD ROAD, LIGHTCLIFFE SE 12 NW (north side) 1/190 Tower to Old Church of St. Matthew (formerly listed as Old Church 3.1.67 of St Matthew under Lightcliffe) ) II

Tower to former church 1775 by William Mallinson (Halifax). Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings of square section, sheer to the crown which bears an octagonal arcaded cupola with ball finial. There is a round headed window to the ground floor with circular opening above. In the belfry is stone taken from an earlier church on this site inscribed: 'Deo et Sancto Mattaeo Apostolo Evangelistae Martyri Sacra A. O. DC XXIX D. Wilding, A History of Two Lightcliffe Chapels, Centenary booklet 1979. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1967), p.642. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse (Brighouse 1978), p.17. Illustrated in G. Hepworth, Brighouse its scenery and antiquities (Halifax 1885), p.19.

Listing NGR: SE1398025369

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 338927
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hepworth, G, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities, (1885), 19
Nortcliffe, D, Buildings of Brighouse, (1978), 17
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 642
Wilding, D , A History of Two Lightcliffe Chapels, (1979)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.