LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL

LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, HOLMFIRTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1134889
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, HOLMFIRTH ROAD

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Date:: 2000-08-04
Reference:: IOE01/01519/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1134889
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, HOLMFIRTH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LYDGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, HOLMFIRTH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Holme Valley
National Grid Reference:: SE 15935 09145

Details

SE 10 NE HOLMFIRTH ROAD 5/152 (New Mill) 16.1.67 Lydgate Unitarian Chapel GV II

Formerly Presbyterian, now Unitarian chapel. 1695, remodelled 1768. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Slate roof with gable copings on carved kneelers. Gable frontage with cupola to apex with ball finial, and supported on 6 hexagonal columns. Central door with round arch with keystone and impost blocks. Small window to each side with similar detailing. Elevation of 3 windows with round arch with keystone and impost blocks and decorative glazing. Two Venetian windows to rear gable wall. Interior said to have early C19 wall memorials one dated 1814. Portion of box pew panelling inscribed John Armitage 1695. Oliver Heywood preached at the opening in 1695. 'Churches and Chapels of Kirklees', A Ronald Bielby, 1978.

Listing NGR: SE1593509145

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Legacy System number:: 340379
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bielby, A R, Churches and Chapels of Kirklees, (1978)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.