Church School is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1973. School.
Church School
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-paling-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- Church School, Upper Kirkgate
- OS grid reference
- SE 096 251
- Coordinates
- 53.72302, -1.85457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church School, located at 1164 Upper Kirkgate, is a long Gothic building likely dating from the early 19th century. It has one main storey above a lower ground floor or part basement. The building features arched windows with altered glazing below and traceried upper windows with both arched and flat heads. Its roof is adorned with battlements and pinnacles, and there are three side gables covered with slate. The entrance at the north end has been altered, while the rear is plain with end wings. This building holds group value with the Church of St John located on Church Street.
Local climate
Church 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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