Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, DENBY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313363
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, DENBY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313363
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, DENBY LANE
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 ST JOHN, DENBY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Denby Dale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 22631 07160
Details
SE 20 NW DENBY LANE Upper Denby 4/29 Church of St. John
II
Church. 1842-3, chancel and porch 1900. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof with gable copings and moulded eaves cornice. Square 3-tier, west tower with porch on south side. Diagonal buttresses to lower tier. Blind oculus to 2nd tier, south side. 3-light square headed, louvred bell-chamber openings, with arched lights. Lancet west window. Plain parapet with pointed octagonal pinnacles. 6-light transomed east window with blind lower tier and intersecting tracery to upper part. Five 2-light nave windows with Y-tracery.
Interior: 4-bay arcade to left and right on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Similar responds. Organ to left. Moulded chancel arch. Choir in chancel. Vestry to south side of chancel. Wooden tunnel vaulted nave roof with stencilling. Close, braced trusses to chancel roof.
Galleries and box pews removed 1900.
A. R. Bielby, Churches & Chapels of Kirklees, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE2263107160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bielby, A R, Churches and Chapels of Kirklees, (1978)
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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