Church of St Paulinus
CHURCH OF ST PAULINUS, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134723
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paulinus
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAULINUS, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134723
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paulinus
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAULINUS, CEMETERY 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:
- CHURCH OF ST PAULINUS, CEMETERY 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 23786 21285
Details
DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)
2/19 Church of St Paulinus
In the description the sentence:
"In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in marble."
should be amended to read:
"In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in plaster."
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DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)
2/19 Church of St. Paulinus
G.V. II
Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church. 1871 by Edward Welby Pugin. Pitched-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. A tall slender building on a steeply sloping site. 9-bay nave. 3-bay chancel with 3-bay porch to right. Bays are marked by slender buttresses. Paired lancets with cusped heads and 6-foil over, to nave and apse. Single lancets with simple tracery to chancel. On the very tall south side is lean-to aisle with lancets, and lancets to the clerestorey. To the left is a small projecting baptistry bay with an 8-foiled rose window.
Interior: Arcade to south of 6 bays. Very large square bases to the columns. Gallery to rear with elegant carved oak screen below. Chancel arch on small colonnette responds, at high level, with heavily foliated capital and corbel. In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in marble. 14 stations of the cross in the nave.
Listing NGR: SE2378621285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340703
- 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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