Stone Craft Centre

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 February 2025 to amend the name, address and description due to a change in building use and reformat the text to current standards.

SE 12 NW 1/139

BRIGHOUSE LEEDS ROAD (north side) The Spire Former Lightcliffe United Reformed Church

(formerly listed as Stone Craft Centre, LEEDS ROAD, previously listed as Lightcliffe United Reformed Church under Lightcliffe)

24.10.74

II Former United Reformed Church, later converted into a craft centre, subsequently a dental surgery. 1871, by Lockwood and Mawson (Bradford) for Sir Titus Salt. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Gothic Revival. Nave, transeptal chancel, west corner tower, south porch.

Prominent tower with offset angle buttresses, pinnacles and octagonal stone spire. West door set between buttresses with two centred arched-head. Clock in two faces and belfry formed by coupled lancets. West end of nave has tall offset crocketed pinnacled buttresses flank large window with pointed arch and geometric tracery with cinque foil. Nave has side aisles of four bays of Early English windows with pointed heads and plate tracery set between offset buttresses. Lancet windows to clerestorey. Transepts have offset angle buttresses, steeply pitched coped gables and large windows with geometric tracery. Similarly treated porch. Lower shallow chancel with rose window and small trefoil light to apex.

Interior: much remodelled. First floor retains open arcades to aisles now forming workshops and craft stall.

D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978) p.12.

Listing NGR: SE1313325742