Former Church of St Luke
FORMER CHURCH OF ST LUKE, DEEP LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313530
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST LUKE, DEEP LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313530
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Nov-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST LUKE, DEEP LANE
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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.
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:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST LUKE, DEEP LANE
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 11854 15641
Details
919/37/899 DEEP LANE 29-SEP-78 MILNSBRIDGE (South side) FORMER CHURCH OF ST LUKE (Formerly listed as: MANCHESTER ROAD MILNSBRIDGE CHURCH OF ST LUKE) (Formerly listed as: DEEP LANE MILNSBRIDGE CHURCH OF ST LUKE)
II Parish church of 1845 by W. Wallen, redundant since 1982.
MATERIALS: Coursed and hammer-dressed sandstone with freestone dressings, slate roofs.
PLAN: Nave with lower apsidal chancel.
EXTERIOR: Neo-Norman style with a tall and wide nave designed to accommodate a 3-sided gallery. The nave is 5 bays and has windows in recessed surrounds with sill band, pilasters and pseudo-machicolations. Round-headed windows have colonnettes with scalloped capitals, and an impost band carried over the windows as hood moulds. The north doorway is in a projecting surround, with 2 orders of shafts to roll-moulded arches and chevrons to the label. Above the doorway are high-relief representations of Agnus Dei, crossed keys and a bishop's mitre. The west wall has a large modern 5-part window of c1965. The lower apse has recessed panels and windows similar to the nave.
INTERIOR: Not accessible at the time of survey (June 2009). It originally had a rib-vaulted chancel. Chancel and apse arches are said to be on semi-circular responds with scallop capitals. There were a number of memorials within, including one to James Armitage (d.1803), shot by hostile natives in the River Waikato, New Zealand.
SUBSIDARY FEATURES: The churchyard is entered through a Gothic gateway.
HISTORY: Parish church built in 1843-46 by William Wallen (1807-53), architect of Huddersfield. Wallen built several other churches in the locality, usually in a simple Gothic style. The neo-Norman style was therefore a departure for the architect although the interior with its galleries was more typical of his church work. Redundant since 1982, and used for storage in recent years.
SOURCES: Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, West Riding (1959), 368. Report by Council for the Care of Churches (1981). Lambeth Palace Library, Incorporated Church Building Society archives (plan of 1843). National Monuments Record, photo survey at time of redundancy.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The former church of St Luke, Milnsbridge, is listed Grade II for the following principal reasons: * The church is built in the neo-Norman style that was fashionable in the 1840s, and retains its external character and detail. * It is prominently sited above Manchester Road and, as such, is typical of churches of the C19 in Huddersfield that were carefully exploited to occupy commanding positions.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340221
- 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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