Tower to Old Church of St Matthew
TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1133792
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1133792
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilding, D, A History of Two Lightcliffe Chapels, (1979)
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
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