Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365699
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365699
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, 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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH 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 14358 23115
Details
BRIGHOUSE CHURCH LANE, BRIGHOUSE SE 12 SW 3/51 Church of St. Martin 3.1.67 G.V. II
Commissioners' Church. 1831 by L. Hammerton. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Nave, west tower and added chancel c.1906 by Hodgson Fowler. No aisles. Nave has 6 bays of lancet windows with 'Y'-tracery, angle buttresses between each bay with pointed heads and weathering. Embattled parapet. Between nave and chancel is octagonal pinnacle. Chancel has similar buttresses dividing 3 bays of arch headed windows with more decorative tracery. East window of similar character under string course which rises parallel with gable. Plain parapet. Tower of 3 stages with set back buttresses has empty niche to 1st stage over arch headed doorway. 2nd stage added clock c.1846 over arched window. Belfry has 'Y'-tracery. Embattled parapet has crocketed pinnacles. The west front has 3 tall lancets with 'Y'-tracery, one in lst stage of tower.
Interior: Wide bare nave with flat partly coved ceiling. Large west gallery originally on 3 sides now cut back. Chancel, of ashlar inside, has tall chancel arch and arcades. Complete furnishings in Perpendicular style, including painted and carved reredos. Elaborate pulpit 1912. One window of glass in Pre-Raphaelite style c.1820 by Morris, and fine East Window with figures of saints. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1967) p.147. G. Hepworth, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities (Halifax 1885) p.8.
Listing NGR: SE1435823115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338800
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hepworth, G, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities, (1885), 8
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 147
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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