Ripponden Congregational Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Church, school.
Ripponden Congregational Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- fossil-pewter-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1982
- Type
- Church, school
- OS grid reference
- SE 035 193
- Coordinates
- 53.67028, -1.94783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ripponden Congregational Church and Sunday School, built in 1869, is constructed from rock-faced stone and features a slate roof with tiled ridges. The main church building is oriented north-south and includes a gabled transept at the ritual east end, with a small hipped-roofed vestry located beyond. At the ritual west end, there is a narthex that has a projecting porch beneath a bell turret, which is broached to an octagon and topped with a stone pyramidal roof. The church is designed in an early French Gothic style, with windows featuring two pointed lights, while the transept has three lights separated by colonnettes. There are unmoulded lancet bell-openings and a rose window at the ritual west end. The narthex is formed by a lean-to roof supported by a low arcade on coupled shafts. The porch expands on one side into a small apse with a half conical roof. Attached to the ritual east end is the Sunday School, which has a separate doorway next to the vestry and features a gabled hipped roof that is interrupted by a half dormer with a two-light pointed window.
Local climate
Ripponden Congregational Church and Sunday School 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 82% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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