Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, WEST PARK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134715
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, WEST PARK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134715
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, WEST PARK STREET
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, WEST PARK STREET
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 23913 22364
Details
DEWSBURY CB WEST PARK STREET SE 22 SW Northfields (Dewsbury)
2/101 Church of St. Mark
II
Large Gothic Revival church. 1862-5 by James Mallinson. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs. 5-bay nave with lean-to buttressed aisles. South porch. Large north and south transepts. Lower 2-bay chancel Chapel and vestry on north side. Square south-west 4-tier tower with splay-footed ashlar spire. The tower is divided by drip mouldings and has angle buttresses and stair tower on south-west corner. 3-light west window with plate tracery. 2-light bell-chamber openings with louvres and stilted arched heads on colonnettes and with single circle in head. The openings are set in a shallow recess with corbel-table over supporting base of spire. Lucarnes in spire have 2-light slender openings. Smaller lucarnes at higher level. Clerestory windows consist of a 6-foiled circle in a triangular surround. Broad, 3-light aisle windows with 6-foiled circle in head. 2-light chancel windows and large 4-light transept windows, all with foiled circles in head. Large 5-light east window with large 5-foiled circle. The porch has two colonnettes with acanthus capitals.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE2391322364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340788
- 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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