Lawsons Funeral Parlour
LAWSONS FUNERAL PARLOUR, OLD BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221740
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lawsons Funeral Parlour
- Statutory Address:
- LAWSONS FUNERAL PARLOUR, OLD BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221740
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lawsons Funeral Parlour
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAWSONS FUNERAL PARLOUR, OLD BANK
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:
- LAWSONS FUNERAL PARLOUR, OLD BANK
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 07860 13963
Details
SE 0713 OLD BANK Slaithwaite 13/347 Lawsons Funeral Parlour II Early C18 origin, largely built, 1842 in vernacular revival style. Formerly Slaithwaite Free School, now funeral parlour. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof with deep ashlar parapet. Two storeys. East elevation: symmetrical 5-bay facade. The centre bay is flanked by ashlar buttresses and surmounted by small ashlar gable with carved bishops mitre and inscription 'REBUILT MDCCCXLII. Central 1st floor, 3-light oriel window with transom with symbols at base reading: 'Alpha Chi Rho, Omega', meaning 'Christ - the beginning and the end'. Below, is inscription "to whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Col ii" (St Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, Chapter II, verse 3). Two cross windows to left and right, 1st floor, and 3 cross windows and 2 Tudor arched entrances to ground floor. West gable: Over door is inscription in capitals: "Slaithwaite Free School founded by the Reverend Robert Meck AD 1721 Augmented by the benefactions of Thomas Walker of Huddersfield, William Walker of Wakefield Esq and Michael Abeket of Aneley Place. AD 1731 for a school of good literature and the catechism contained in the liturgy of the Church of England". A further inscription concerns the foundation of the school dated 1842. Part of the original west wall survives arid has 3-light chamfered window, altered to ground floor. To lst floor is 3 over 5-light and 3 over 3-light double chamfered mullioned and transom windows.
Listing NGR: SE0786013963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413619
- 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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