Church Of St Saviour

DEWSBURY CB HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SE 22 SW (Ravensthorpe)

2/56 Church of St. Saviour 30/6/49 II

Large Gothic Revival church. 1901 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched and hipped roofs, slated to west end, tiled to east. 5-bay nave with pitched roofed south aisle of similar proportions. North porch. Tall chancel with large north and south transept. Tall 5-light east window with reticulated tracery. South transept window - a large wheel. North transept window - 2-tier with reticulated tracery. Aisle, side - chapel and nave windows - 2-light with curvilinear tracery. North porch with adjoining short square tower with octagonal open bell-cote with slated spine. Archivolted slender, cusped, bell-cote openings. West window 3-light with reticulated tracery.

Interior: 5-bay central arcade on octagonal piers. Large transept arches on clustered responds. North side chapel of 2 bays arcaded, in each direction, on clustered and filleted responds and piers. Organ chamber on south side rood loft. Wooden vaulted roofs to east end. Arched braced collar roof to nave and aisle. Commemorative glass to east window 1922 and to east window of north chapel 1924.

Listing NGR: SE2230320298