Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184136
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184136
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28339 19407
Details
SE21NE
6/27
OSSETT
HORBURY ROAD
(north side), South Ossett
Christ Church
II
Church built 1851 to designs by Mallinson and Healey. Tooled squared stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Cruciform plan with west tower, 3+-bay nave with south porch, north and south transepts, and a 2-bay chancel, with later organ chamber to north-east, in keeping. Angle buttresses. The square tower has reducing buttresses, a stair tower to north, 2-light, louvred, bell-chamber openings and a low pyramidal roof behind a bracketed, crenellated parapet. Double-chamfered lancet windows with cusped heads. 3-light north transept window, 3-light east window with 3 quatrefoils in head, south transept has 2 lancets and a wheel in the apex containing 4 trefoils.
Interior: 6 arch-braced roof trusses to nave with reverse curved struts springing from the centre of the tie-beam. Scissor-braced transept roofs. Panelled chancel roof. Stained glass to east window and south transept. Straight-backed pews to nave only. Small west gallery with ancilliary accommodation beneath gallery and under tower.
Listing NGR: SE 28339 19407
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harman, Ruth, Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, (2017), 422
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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