Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Church.
Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- WRENN ID
- still-jade-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Wesley Place, Silsden
- OS grid reference
- SE 042 464
- Coordinates
- 53.91435, -1.93665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, originally a Wesleyan Methodist Church, was built around 1870. It features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a roof made of Welsh and Westmorland green slate. The church has a cruciform plan and a prominent west end with a wide gable, which includes a five-light arched window with geometrical tracery and a doorway topped with a triangular hood that has a quatrefoil. There are buttresses with offsets on either side, with the right side being taller and set back from two faces of an octagonal turret that has an open belfry and a spire above. The north and south transepts have tall plain lancet windows, and the gables are coped with kneelers and finials. The roof is adorned with four bands of fish-scale slates.
Inside, the church features an elaborate arch-braced roof that springs from clustered colonnettes located at the angles of the transepts. The braces cross in the center, forming a St. Andrew's cross figure, and cast-iron hoops are set in the open spandrels. A pointed arched recess creates a shallow sanctuary. The church is included for its group value.
Local climate
Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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