Denholme United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Church. 1 related planning application.
Denholme United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-threshold-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Denholme United Reformed Church, Keighley Road, BD13 4JR
- OS grid reference
- SE 069 344
- Coordinates
- 53.80625, -1.89531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Denholme United Reformed Church is a United Reformed Chapel built in 1844 and enlarged in 1896. It features deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high with a three-bay symmetrical pediment-gable front that includes pilaster quoins. Two doorways are accessed by three steps, set within an ashlar porch with simple pilaster jambs supporting an entablature. There are plain flanking windows, and a central first-floor triple group window with marginal glazing, flanked by single lights, all of which are round-arched and archivolted. A first-floor sill band runs along the façade, and a plaque indicates the chapel was built in 1844 and enlarged in 1896. An oculus is present in the tympanum of the pediment.
The six-bay side elevations have square-headed ground-floor windows and round-arched first-floor windows, with marginal glazing on the right elevation. The interior is notable for its pine fittings, likely dating from the 1896 enlargement. It features an oval gallery supported by slender Corinthian columns, with a panelled front and a dentilled frieze. The panelled pulpit has stairs on each side, and an organ is located within a round-arched recess at the front of the gallery level. Access to the gallery is provided by stairs on each side at the rear, and the ceiling has been lowered.
Local climate
Denholme United Reformed Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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