Harden Congregational Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Harden Congregational Church
- WRENN ID
- watchful-vestry-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1982
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Harden Congregational Church, Wilsden Road, BD16 1JP
- OS grid reference
- SE 086 383
- Coordinates
- 53.8411, -1.87041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harden Congregational Church is a chapel built around 1865. It features an ashlar front with hammer-dressed stone on the sides and rear, topped by a Welsh blue-slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a pedimented gable front with a symmetrical three-bay facade. There is a basement plinth and battered channelled quoin pilasters at the ground floor, which rise from a string course to panelled quoin pilasters on the first floor. The church has a frieze and a strongly-modelled bracketed pediment that contains a scrolled cartouche.
A flight of steps leads up to the doorway, which is flanked by pilasters with scrolled lugs at the bases, and features panelled spandrels above a fan-light arch with a cornice over. All the windows are semicircular-arched with archivolts. The ground floor windows have consoles at the sills and are double-framed with slightly pointed voussoired and keyed arches on panelled imposts. The first floor has an impost band linking slightly pointed archivolts, with a coupled window in the centre divided by a Tuscan column. The building is adorned with a modillion cornice and frieze. The left and right returns consist of five bays, each with sill bands and string courses, and the windows have archivolts on console imposts, with keystones on the ground floor windows.
Local climate
Harden Congregational 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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