Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, DUDWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314026
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, DUDWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314026
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, DUDWELL 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:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, DUDWELL LANE
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 09308 22669
Details
679/7/170 DUDWELL LANE 23-NOV-73 (South side) CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
II DATES OF MAIN PHASES, NAME OF ARCHITECT: Parish church of 1858 by Mallinson & Healey, extended in 1874.
MATERIALS: Coursed sandstone with freestone dressings, graded-slate roof.
PLAN: Asymmetrical plan of aisled nave with north porch, north transept, south transept tower, lower chancel with north and east vestries.
EXTERIOR: Free-Decorated style church. The nave is 5 bays. Aisles have 3-light north and south windows and 2-light west windows, below a clerestorey of cinquefoil windows under segmental heads. The nave has deep angle buttresses, between which a shallow lean-to has been added, and a 3-light west window. The north porch has an entrance with continuous double chamfer. The 4-stage tower has diagonal buttresses and gabled north-east stair turret with blocked doorway under a shouldered lintel. In the lower stage is a triple cusped south window below a second-stage 2-light window, then small square-headed south and west windows in the third stage. The upper stage is octagonal, with 2-light windows in the main directions, above which is a stone spire with lucarnes. The north transept has a 3-light window. In the chancel is a 4-light east window, 2-light north and south windows. The east vestry has a 3-light east window, and roof concealed behind a parapet. The vestry is a lean-to against the transept, with entrance in a projection wrapped around the north-east angle of the chancel.
INTERIOR: The first 2 bays of the nave have been partitioned off from the main body of the church, but the original architectural elements remain visible. Nave arcades have octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches. Chancel and transept arches are similar, on polygonal responds. Arches into the organ chamber at the base of the tower are steeply pointed. The nave roof has closely spaced rafters, and the chancel has a 3-bay cusped arched-brace roof. The north transept, now closed off and divided into rooms, has a plain arched-brace roof. Walls are plastered. In the west end of the chancel is a raised dais, where the altar has been set up.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Most fittings, including pews and pulpit, have been removed. The 1886 font is an alabaster marble bowl on painted stone stem. It has a tall wooden Gothic canopy now kept in the north transept. The painted freestone reredos is an arcade of cusped arches under crocketed gables, and on marble shafts. In the chancel south wall is a memorial to John Henry Warneford (d 1899), the first incumbent, a bust in an eared and lugged marble architrave. There are several stained-glass windows of the 1860s, and a west window of Christ performing miracles (c1885).
HISTORY: Built in 1858 by the partnership of James Mallinson (1819-84) and Thomas Healey (1839-1910), architects of Bradford. Originally the organ was placed in the north transept and beneath the tower was a gallery. The vestries were added in 1874. The interior was re-ordered c2000 when a parish room, office and service rooms were provided at the west end of the nave. SOURCES: Lambeth Palace Library, Incorporated Church Building Society Archives, file 05078. Information from Dr John Hargreaves.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Church of All Saints, Dudwell Lane, Halifax, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * The church is a modest Gothic-Revival design but is spacious in keeping with the expanding population of C19 Halifax. * The church is a major landmark at the south end of the town overlooking the Calder Valley and, with other C19 suburban churches, documents the growth of industrial Halifax in the C19 and is a good example of how C19 churches were carefully sited to occupy commanding positions in the townscape.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338689
- 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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