United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LONG CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134701
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LONG CAUSEWAY
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- Date:
- 1999-08-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/00888/01
- Rights:
- © Mr Richard Turner. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134701
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LONG CAUSEWAY
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:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LONG CAUSEWAY
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 24641 21665
Details
DEWSBURY CB LONG CAUSEWAY SE 2421 NE (Dewsbury) 8/66 22/8/77 United Reformed Church
G.V. II
Gothic Revival church in Decorated style. Former Ebenezer Congregational Church. 1884 by Walter Hanstock. White Holmfirth ashlar to front, and hammer dressed stone. Pitched Westmorland slate roof with gable copings. 2 storeys with string course between, decorated with anthemion. 6 gabled bays to sides divided by buttresses. 4-bay front, the centre 2 bays being gabled, and flanked by shaped buttresses which rise to form elaborate turrets. Large central arched and gabled portal with 3 grey granite colonnettes in reveals. The portal is elaborately decorated with carved foliage. Two square headed doorways, above which, in the tympanum of the portal, is a well carved scene of the Resurrection, and 6 small cusped lights. Above the portal are 2 large arched 3-light windows with large rose in head and 2 red granite colonnettes in reveals. The flanking bays have paired lights to ground floor, and small 3-light windows with large sexfoil in head to 1st floor, with small gable over. Side elevation windows are 3-light with tracery, cambered heads to ground floor, pointed arches to 1st floor with three, foiled circles in head. A very high standard of stone carving is noteworthy.
Interior: Gallery to rear and both sides on cast iron columns with elaborate foliated capitals. These are continued at gallery level, where the side walls are treated as an arcade. Panelled pulpit communion table and gallery front. Pews with bench-end, all in varnished pitch-pine. Good organ case in the 6-sided apse end. Elaborate plaster frieze. Vaulted panelled roof.
The church seats 436 in the main body and 400 in the gallery.
Steps to front with flanking walls and square, very elaborate, panelled piers with elaborate caps.
Listing NGR: SE2464121665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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