CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, GREENS END ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313662
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, GREENS END ROAD

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Date:: 2001-05-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313662
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, GREENS END ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, GREENS END ROAD

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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

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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.