Blackley Baptist Church
BLACKLEY BAPTIST CHURCH, BLACKLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313954
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Blackley Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKLEY BAPTIST CHURCH, BLACKLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313954
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Blackley Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKLEY BAPTIST CHURCH, BLACKLEY ROAD
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:
- BLACKLEY BAPTIST CHURCH, BLACKLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10158 19910
Details
ELLAND BLACKLEY ROAD SE 101199 (west side) 4/6 Blackley Baptist Church 29.4.82 II
Large chapel on a prominent hilltop site. 1878. Dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Tall 2-storey pediment-gabled front. Plinth string and sill courses, deeply moulded pediment. Archivolt arched windows, with marginal glazing, grouped to centre above paired doorways with archivolt arched fanlights framed by engaged Roman Doric columns with common entablature.
Interior with continuous curve-ended raked gallery on cast iron columns with foliate caps. Stairs with richly turned balusters and newels rising to both sides of deeply panelled pulpit. Moulded beam ceiling with rose vent to each bay. Downstairs the box pews are focused to front in hemicycle. Built to seat a congregation of around 1600. The earlier 1789 chapel remains to the west as the caretaker's house.
Listing NGR: SE1015819910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338430
- 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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