Church of Holy Innocents
CHURCH OF HOLY INNOCENTS, VICARAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300421
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Innocents
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY INNOCENTS, VICARAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300421
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Innocents
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY INNOCENTS, VICARAGE 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:
- CHURCH OF HOLY INNOCENTS, VICARAGE 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 24176 20320
Details
DEWSBURY CB VICARAGE ROAD SE 22 SW (Thornhill Lees)
2/93 Church of Holy Innocents
G.V. II
Large Gothic Revival church in Decorated style. 1858 by Mallinson and Healy. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roofs. 5-bay nave with buttressed, lean-to north and south aisles. South porch. 3-bay chancel with vestry on south side. Square west tower with broach spire. Tower is of 3 tiers with angle buttresses. Paired 2-light bell-chamber openings. The parapet is pierced with trefoils and has large octagonal pinnacles, and gargoyles. The spire has lucarnes and smaller ones higher up. The west window is of three lights with two trefoils and one cinquefoil in head. The south porch has elaborate moulded surround with filleted colonnettes and good foliage capitals and drop tracery. 2-light clerestory windows with simple tracery. North and south aisles have 3-light windows with Decorated tracery. 2-light chancel windows with traceried heads. 5-light east window with two cinquefoils and one large circle in head.
Interior: 5-bay arcade to north and south on quatrefoil filleted piers with plain capitals. Chancel arch on similar responds. Arched braced hammer beam roof on colonnettes and corbels. Very elaborate stone pulpit, and font, the latter with good, carved, tall, cover with pinnacles.
Listing NGR: SE2417620320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340780
- 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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