Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313710
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313710
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH 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 20290 23979
Details
SE 22 SW SPENBOROUGH MB CHURCH LANE LIVERSEDGE 4/96 12/1/67 Christ Church
II
Large Gothic Revival Church. 1812-16. By Thomas Taylor of Leeds. Ashlar and dressed stone. Pitched slate roof with crenellated parapet. West tower, 5-bay nave with clerestorey lean-to aisles, 2-bay chancel with side chapel and vestry. Large 3-light aisle windows and 2-light clerestory windows all with Perpendicular tracery and hood mould. Bay divisions are marked by gabled buttresses. Large perpendicular east window with panel tracery. 4 tier tower with angle buttresses. Doorway on south side and blocked doorway on west side. 6-light louvred and traceried openings to bell chamber. Crenellated parapet and crocketted pinnacles.
Interior: 5-bay arcades on octagonal piers. Gallery to rear, presumably later, with panelled oak front, on slender oak columns. Fine oak rood screen, 1911-12, with the 12 northern saints carved at the bottom. Slender supports rise to fan and support crested cornice with frieze which is very elaborately carved with vines. East window stained glass of 1864. Hexagonal marble font elaborately carved with lion, bull, angel, eagle, lamb and shield.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire: Architects and Architecture, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE2029023979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341002
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (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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