Blackley Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Church.
Blackley Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-mortar-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Blackley Baptist Church, Blackley Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 101 199
- Coordinates
- 53.67558, -1.84771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackley Baptist Church is a large chapel built in 1878, situated on a prominent hilltop site. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a tall, two-storey front with a pediment gable. The building has a plinth string and sill courses, along with a deeply moulded pediment. The windows are archivolt arched, with marginal glazing, and are grouped at the center above paired doorways that have archivolt arched fanlights. These doorways are framed by engaged Roman Doric columns topped with a common entablature.
Inside, the church has a continuous curve-ended raked gallery supported by cast iron columns with foliate caps. Stairs with richly turned balusters and newels rise on both sides of a deeply panelled pulpit. The ceiling features moulded beams with rose vents in each bay. The box pews on the ground floor are arranged in a hemicycle, focused towards the front, and the church was built to accommodate a congregation of around 1,600 people. To the west, the earlier chapel from 1789 still exists and is used as the caretaker's house.
Local climate
Blackley Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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