Former Lightcliffe United Reformed Church
The Spire, Leeds Road, Hipperholme, Brighouse
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133812
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lightcliffe United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- The Spire, Leeds Road, Hipperholme, Brighouse
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133812
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lightcliffe United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Spire, Leeds Road, Hipperholme, Brighouse
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:
- The Spire, Leeds Road, Hipperholme, Brighouse
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 13133 25742
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 February 2025 to amend the name, address and description due to a change in building use and reformat the text to current standards.
SE 12 NW
1/139
BRIGHOUSE
LEEDS ROAD (north side)
The Spire
Former Lightcliffe United Reformed Church
(formerly listed as Stone Craft Centre, LEEDS ROAD, previously listed as Lightcliffe United Reformed Church under Lightcliffe)
24.10.74
II
Former United Reformed Church, later converted into a craft centre, subsequently a dental surgery. 1871, by Lockwood and Mawson (Bradford) for Sir Titus Salt. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Gothic Revival. Nave, transeptal chancel, west corner tower, south porch.
Prominent tower with offset angle buttresses, pinnacles and octagonal stone spire. West door set between buttresses with two centred arched-head. Clock in two faces and belfry formed by coupled lancets. West end of nave has tall offset crocketed pinnacled buttresses flank large window with pointed arch and geometric tracery with cinque foil. Nave has side aisles of four bays of Early English windows with pointed heads and plate tracery set between offset buttresses. Lancet windows to clerestorey. Transepts have offset angle buttresses, steeply pitched coped gables and large windows with geometric tracery. Similarly treated porch. Lower shallow chancel with rose window and small trefoil light to apex.
Interior: much remodelled. First floor retains open arcades to aisles now forming workshops and craft stall.
D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978) p.12.
Listing NGR: SE1313325742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nortcliffe, D, Buildings of Brighouse, (1978), 12
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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