CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1135290
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1965
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1135290
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1965
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Denby Dale
National Grid Reference:: SE 24494 13320

Details

SE 21 SW CHURCH STREET Emley 1/22 Church of St. Michael 29.3.65 I

Church. South wall probably early medieval, the rest early C15 with slightly later tower. Kirkby Chapel 1632. Perpendicular style. Nave windows (south side) and internal restorations of 1874. Rough coursed rubble to south wall, the rest deeply coursed stone. Stone slate roofs, that to chancel being lower. Two-stage square west tower, 3-bay nave with lean-to north aisle, and gabled south porch, 3-bay chancel with Kirkby Chapel on north side. Diagonal buttresses to tower, reducing with off-sets. West door with moulded surround and hood mould. Large 3-light traceried west window (restored). 4-light mullioned and transomed bell-chamber openings with traceried heads. Gargoyles, crenellated parapet and 8 crocketed pinnacles. Large 2-light windows to nave with arched lights and hood moulds. North aisle windows square headed, one of two lights with cusped heads, the other of three lights with cambered heads. 2-light chancel windows, square headed with cusped lights. 3-light east window with arched head. On south side of chancel is a priest's door and also a memorial tablet to Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Cooper, d.1784 with fluted jambs, apron and scrolled, open-pedimented top. Also set in the wall is a small medieval grave slab with cross and shears.

Interior: 3-bay north arcade on octagonal piers with splayed and moulded capitals. Double chamfered arches. Similar large chancel arch on small corbels. 2-bay arcade to chancel. Queen-post roof trusses with cross struts, to nave. Tie-beams and principal rafters are moulded, the rest probably C19 replacements. Two tiers of curved wind-bracing, with similar to porch roof. Good, panelled chancel roof with pendant finials. Pews and chancel screen of 1874. Elegant C18 pulpit in panelled oak with tester, stair and door. Tulip font, late C17 with irregular fluting, on round gadrooned pedestal. Elaborate brass candelabra of 1832 donated by Henry Leah of Bierley Hall, Bradford. C15 stained glass in east window: Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John, all incomplete. Glass in chancel south window of similar date: St. Michael in armour and another angel (Pevsner). In the south wall is a reset tympanum from the Norman church formerly near the site. It shows the Lion and the Lamb. The top part is missing. Under it is a small piscina.

Memorials: Brass plate in chancel reads: HEARE LYETH THE BODY OF ROBART TALLOT LATE OF BENTLEY GRANGE IN THE COUNTYE OF YORKE. YEOMAN. WHO HAD ISSWE BY JOHANE HIS WYF V SONES . I . VI DOUGHTERS AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE XIIII DAY OF OCTOBAR ANNO DOMII 1605 IN THE 76 YEARS OF HIS AIGE. Behind the organ to left is a tablet in scrolled surround of 1700 to Mary wife of Richd Woolfendin of Lodg. A vertical grave slab to Richard Wortley "aged 3 months and odd days" (d.1687). A marble memorial to William Wheatley of White Cross, 1766. Memorial to Henry Leah of Emley, Mason, d.1800, of black and white marble with ascending soul with angel, signed W. Williams of Huddersfield. Above the nave door is a wooden, late C18 table of 'BENEFACTIONS TO THE POOR OF EMLEY'.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967. H. N. Pobjoy, A History of Emley, 1970.

Listing NGR: SE2449413321

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Legacy System number:: 341289
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Pobjoy, H N, A History of Emley, (1970)

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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.