Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1966. Church.
Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- wild-roof-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Bartholomew, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 047 116
- Coordinates
- 53.60127, -1.93034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Bartholomew is a large Neo-perpendicular church built in 1895 by architect C Hodgson Fowler, with a tower added in 1911. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a pitched slate roof. The church has a four-tier west tower and a five-bay nave that includes a clerestory and lean-to buttressed aisles. The chancel consists of three bays, with a lean-to chapel on the south side and a vestry on the north side. There are porches on both the south and north sides.
The church is adorned with large three-light traceried aisle windows, complemented by two-light windows in the clerestory, with two windows per bay. The east window is a large five-light traceried design, and there is also a large traceried west window. The west tower features four reducing tiers and angle buttresses, a clock face on all four sides, and large louvred traceried openings in the bell chamber. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and crocketted pinnacles.
Inside, there is a five-bay arcade on quatrefoil piers on both the north and south sides, and a tall chancel arch supported by similar responds. The chancel screen and rood loft are made of well-carved oak by J H Gibbons FRIBA from Manchester and London, executed by Messrs Boulton & Co of Cheltenham, and were dedicated in 1913. The interior also features carved oak reveals and a painted panel by Hildred Harpin AFICA. Additionally, there is an octagonal font with a canopy, created in 1895 and restored in 1968.
Local climate
Church of St Bartholomew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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