CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313662
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, GREENS END ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, GREENS END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Meltham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 09937 10637
Details
SE 01 SE GREEN END ROAD
(Meltham)
1/9
Church of St. Bartholomew
6 th April 1967
II
Classical church on site of church of 1651. 1782-6. Thought to be
by Joseph Jagger. Tower and north transept added 1835 by J P Pritchett.
Neo-Norman chancel added 1877-8 by John Kirk. Tower and nave, ashlar
with raised quoins. Chancel, hammer dressed stone. Stone slate roof
with gable copings on square kneelers. Moulded eaves cornice. Two
storey nave with band between floors. 6-bay nave, 2-bay chancel,
square west tower. Single light windows to nave, 4 to ground floor,
south side, and doorway to left and right with architrave, pulvinated
frieze and cornce. 3-bay transept on north side, one bay deep, with
single light windows, as nave, and oculus in gable apex. Chancel has
slender round arched single lights with hood moulds. The east window
has 3 equal round headed slender single lights with colonnettes with
broad foliated capitals. Group of 3 small round-arched lights in
gable apex. 3-tier west tower has blind round-arched windows in recess
to 2nd tier. Tall 3-light, louvred bell chamber openings. Corner
pilasters to bell chamber, supporting architrave, frieze and cornice,
with blocking course and 4 large urns.
Interior. Gallery to rear and north over aisle, on slender cast iron
columns. Panelled gallery fronts with balustrade. Wood panelled
coffered ceiling. Round chancel arch on paired, squat, red granite
colonnettes. Neo-Norman font presented 1878. Various early and mid
C19 wall memorials including one to James Brook, d. 1845 by H Mares,
depicting kneeling woman by an altar.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE0993710637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340845
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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