The Old Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Chapel. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- solemn-string-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Old Sunday School, Bakes Street, BD7 3EX
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 317
- Coordinates
- 53.78203, -1.78413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sunday School, formerly known as Great Horton United Reformed Church, is a substantial chapel renovated in 1851-52. It features restrained early 19th century classical details. The building has a two-storey elevation made of thin sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof. Notable architectural elements include a plinth, a ground floor impost string, a moulded string course, a sill band, and a moulded eaves cornice.
At the first floor level, there are five round-headed windows with squared ashlar surrounds, key and impost blocks, with the central window designed in a plain Venetian style. The ground floor has similar single windows flanking a central overarched Venetian window. Large doorways at each end of the front are framed by eared architrave surrounds, with carved consoles supporting pediments above. The interior is plain, featuring a gallery supported by cast iron columns.
Local climate
The Old Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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