Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, STAINCLIFFE HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134612
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, STAINCLIFFE HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134612
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, STAINCLIFFE HALL 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, STAINCLIFFE HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23065 23614
Details
SE 22 SW BATLEY MB STAINCLIFFE HALL ROAD STAINCLIFFE
4/45 Christ Church
II
Gothic Revival Church in style of 1300 (Pevsner). 1867 by W H Crossland of Leeds, unfinished. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Pitched slate roof. 5-bay nave, 2-bay chancel. North and south aisles each with porch. 3 tier west tower with diagonal buttressing and crenellated parapet with tall crocketted pinnacles. The tower was designed to have a tall slender spire but this was not built. Bell chamber has traceried 6-light louvred openings. 5-light stained glass east window, traceried with engaged colonnettes with foliated capitals, and hood mould with figure head stops. Similar 4-light west window. 3-light clerestory windows, traceried with 3 trefoils. 2-light aisle windows with stained glass to south, one of which is German. Hood moulds over have plain square stops and were presumably to have been carved in situ. Interior features include tall chancel arch with foliage carving. Aisle arches on quatrefoil columns with capitals carved with vines. Screened Lady Chapel to north side. Round carved stone font. Hammer beam roof. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1979.
Listing NGR: SE2306523614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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