Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1184136
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1184136
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HORBURY ROAD
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
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- Legacy System number:
- 342520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harman, Ruth, Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, (2017), 422
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