Lingards Mission Church

LINGARDS MISSION CHURCH, LINGARDS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1275735
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1973
List Entry Name:
Lingards Mission Church
Statutory Address:
LINGARDS MISSION CHURCH, LINGARDS ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1275735
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Lingards Mission Church
Statutory Address 1:
LINGARDS MISSION CHURCH, LINGARDS ROAD

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LINGARDS MISSION CHURCH, LINGARDS 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 07222 13169

Details

SE 0713 LINGARDS ROAD Slaithwaite 13/244 Lingards Mission Church 19/7/73 (formerly listed as Lingards Mission School)

- II

1851 (datestone). Hammer dressed stone. Reducing diagonal buttresses to each corner. Ashlar plinth. Pitched slate roof with alternate pairs of courses: plain and serrated slates. Stone ridge. Square ashlar footstones. Corbelled ashlar cornice to gutter. Coped gables. To west is ashlar bellcote with coping with roll top (no bell). To east is seven sided tubular finial. South elevation: Stone porch to each end with pitched slate roofs and coped gables. Doorways have ashlar surrounds and pointed arched heads with chamfered reveals. Western doorway has hood mould over. Porches have side windows with chamfered reveals and hood mould over. The main elevation has three windows, each with three slender lights with pointed arched heads, chamfered surrounds and mullions, and deep hood mould over. Windows have diamond pattern leaded glazing. Inscription above inner door of west porch: LINGARDS CHURCH SCHOOL ERECTED A.D. MDCCCLI BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH WAS CONVEYED IN TRUST TO THE MINISTER AND CHAPEL WARDENS OF SLAITHWAITE CUM LINGARDS AND UNITED TO THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH THE REV. CHARLES AUGUSTUS HULBERT M.A.} JOHN DRANSFIELD AND JOHN VARLEY }First Trustees North elevation: Three windows as south elevation. Single window to each side (one blocked) with pointed arched heads and deep sills. Hood mould over. East and West elevations: Central 6-light window with transom, top two central lights are taller. Lights have pointed arched heads, chamfered reveals and mullions. Hood mould over with round stop.

Listing NGR: SE0722213169

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Legacy System number:
411432
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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