Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School

GROVE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, OXFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135399
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:
Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School
Statutory Address:
GROVE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, OXFORD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135399
Date first listed:
30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:
Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School
Statutory Address 1:
GROVE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, OXFORD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GROVE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, OXFORD 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 20817 26388

Details

SE 22 NW SPENBOROUGH MB OXFORD ROAD (east side) GOMERSAL 2/142 Grove Congregational 30.4.82 Church and Sunday School

II

United Reformed Chapel with adjoining Sunday School. 1825-6. Sunday School possibly earlier. Dressed stone. Stone slate roof. Two storeys with plinth and 1st floor sill band. 3-bay pedimented front to hall, 5 bays long. Central doorway in architrave, with frieze and cornice over. Double door with narrow fielded panels. Rectangular fanlight with marginal glazing. Round arched ground floor windows in round-arched recessed panels which extend to plinth. Round-arched windows to 1st floor, the centre one in recessed panel. All with marginal glazing. Oculus in tympanum of pediment. Galleried interior partly refurbished in the 1860s.

The Sunday School wing is of 2 storeys, with hipped stone slate roof. Four bays and round-arched sashes with glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SE2081726388

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
341049
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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