LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS

LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS, LONGWOOD GATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357497
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS
Statutory Address:: LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS, LONGWOOD GATE

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Date:: 2001-05-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357497
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS, LONGWOOD GATE

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:: LONGWOOD BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AND MEETING ROOMS, LONGWOOD GATE

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 10551 17085

Details

LONGWOOD GATE 1. 5113 (east side) SE 1017 & SE 1117 Longwood 26/1100 Longwood Baptist Sunday School II and Meeting Rooms

2. Baptist School and Meeting House. 1837. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 8 bays. Plinth band. Gabled porch to right of centre has step up to double door under fanlight in round-arched quoined surround with voussoirs aligned to courses and tabled keystone; oval plaque above doorway inscribed "LONGWOOD BAPTIST SCHOOL AND MEETING HOUSE"; moulded kneelers, coping and finial to gable; to returns, a round-arched window with imposts and moulded gutter brackets. Windows on ground floor of meeting house are sashes with margin lights with raised cills and lintel band. 1st-floor windows are round-arched with horizontal glazing bars, raised cills and imposts. Coved gutter brackets on table. Inturned kneelers, coping. Stack to left gable. Right return: small round-arched window in gable. The building was used as the first meeting place for the Mechanics' Institute c1845 and it also housed the Reading Room and News Room and the Discussion Society.

Listing NGR: SE1055117085

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Legacy System number:: 422645
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.