Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135311
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135311
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, WAKEFIELD 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 AUGUSTINE, WAKEFIELD ROAD
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 24840 10422
Details
SE 21 SW WAKEFIELD ROAD (North side) 1/64 Scissett
Church of St. Augustine
II
Church. 1839 by Richardson. Apsed chancel of 1881. South porch 1935. Hammer dressed stone with diagonal ashlar buttresses and ashlar dressings. Low pitched slate nave roof behind tall parapets. Steeper slate roofs to chancel and vestries. 5-bay nave with tall lancets with deep, chamfered reveals and hood moulds. One on south side part covered by the gabled porch. 4-stage, square west tower with part blocked west door under deep hood mould. Blocked lancets to 2nd tier. Triple group of lancets to bell-chamber. Octagonal piers which have lost their pinnacles. Round stair tower on north side of tower. 3-sided apsidal chancel with 2-light windows with plate tracery. Vestry on south side is diagonally set.
Interior: 10-panel plaster ceiling to nave. Scissor braced chancel roof. Raking west gallery on 2 cast iron columns. The gallery front has a series of arched sunken panels. Iron chancel screen of 1910 with delicate scrolled foliage design. Tall, moulded chancel arch on round responds. Choir stalls and organ in chancel. Oak pulpit, on clustered pedestal, with traceried sides. Stained glass of late C19 and early C20 including 3 east windows, to members of the Norton family, of 1881. Gothic monument to Joseph Norton (d.1874).
A. R. Bielby, Churches & Chapels of Kirklees, 1978. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE2484010422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341336
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bielby, A R, Churches and Chapels of Kirklees, (1978)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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