CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE

CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE, HALIFAX ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231874
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1978
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE, HALIFAX ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231874
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Sep-2010
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE, HALIFAX ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE, HALIFAX 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 11918 18812

Details

919/20/1147 HALIFAX ROAD 29-SEP-78 BIRCHENCLIFFE (North side) CHURCH OF ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE (Formerly listed as: ROCK ROAD BIRCHENCLIFFE CHURCH OF ST PHILIP)

II DATES OF MAIN PHASES, NAME OF ARCHITECT: Parish church of 1878 by J.N. Cross.

MATERIALS: Coursed sandstone with freestone dressings and graded-slate roofs with ridge tiles.

PLAN: Nave with north aisle and north-west porch, lower chancel with south organ chamber.

EXTERIOR: Parish church in Decorated style, with steep roofs incorporating gabled ventilators to the nave, and asymmetrical but uncompleted tower, the lower stage of which is the porch. The buttressed 4-bay nave has 2-light south windows, triple trefoil-headed north clerestorey windows and west front with diagonal buttresses, 2 single-light windows with pointed trefoil tracery lights, below a circle with 3 tracery quatrefoils. The north aisle has paired trefoil-headed windows. The porch is storeyed and forms the lower 2 stages of an uncompleted tower, which has diagonal buttresses and was finished off by a saddleback roof and louvres in the gable. It has a pointed north doorway with continuous moulding, west lancet and west stair-turret doorway. The upper storey has small quatrefoil windows in bold surrounds. The chancel has a 3-light east window and diagonal buttresses and 2 single-light traceried north windows. The organ chamber is under a lean-to roof and has pointed windows and doorway with continuous chamfer.

INTERIOR: The nave has an arched-brace roof with 2 tiers of windbraces and scissor braces. Common rafters are decorated with stencilled rosettes and chevrons. The 3-bay nave arcade is on round piers and has finely moulded arches. There are blind arches on the south and east faces of the tower base. The chancel arch has a continuous moulding and inner order on slender shafts. The chancel roof has cusped arched braces on corbels, with a single tier of windbraces and painted polygonal rafters behind. Walls are plastered. There are floorboards beneath the pews.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The font is Perpendicular style, octagonal with cusped panels and with wooden cover. Interesting benches have unusually thin X-shape ends. The polygonal freestone pulpit has blind cusped arches inlaid with tiles representing the 4 seasons. The pulpit has painted inscriptions on tile panels. The 5-bay chancel screen has main lights with intricate tracery, and a cornice and brattishing. Choir stalls have ends with finials and open-arcaded frontals. The sanctuary has a Gothic panelled dado dated 1923, integral with the reredos, which has blind-tracery panels with low-relief carvings of lilies, under a canopy.

HISTORY: Parish church of 1878 by J.N. Cross (fl. 1868-83), architect of Liverpool. It was intended to have a north tower, and perhaps a spire, but it was not completed. Most of the furnishings are integral with the building of the church.

SOURCES: Lambeth Palace Library, Incorporated Church Building Society Archives, file 07921.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Church of St Philip the Apostle, Birchencliffe, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a relatively modest Gothic-Revival church built in a single phase, which retains external character and has a well-preserved interior with good-quality timber roofs. * Its furnishings make a strong contribution to the late C19 character of the interior, and include a pulpit of definite quality.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 407006
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.