Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and Adjoining House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1979. Church, school, residence. 4 related planning applications.
Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and Adjoining House
- WRENN ID
- moated-cobble-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1979
- Type
- Church, school, residence
- Address
- Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and Adjoining House, HD3 3FW
- OS grid reference
- SE 066 158
- Coordinates
- 53.63915, -1.90034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pole Moor Baptist Church, Sunday School, and adjoining house were built in 1838, though a later report suggests the chapel dates from 1859. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, tie rods and plates, and a pitched stone slate roof with coped gables. Squared and moulded footstones sit on paired carved consoles, and stone brackets support the south elevation. The building is two storeys high with a basement.
The east gable has eight steps leading to a large central doorway with a fanlight and panelled doors, set within an ashlar surround and semi-circular head. Round engaged columns with Ionic capitals support the architrave and cornice above the doorway. Flanking the doorway are single windows with moulded ashlar surrounds, cornices, and pronounced sills resting on small square brackets. The first floor has a central three-light window with a moulded ashlar surround, architrave, pediment, and pronounced sill. Single windows, similarly detailed, are positioned to either side. An ashlar string course runs above the first-floor windows. A plaque in the gable's apex reads "Pole Moor Particular Baptist Chapel Erected in the year of our Lord 1838 'The Hill of Sion Yields a thousand sacred sweets'". The north and south elevations have five single-light windows on the ground floor with pronounced sills, and five single-light windows on the first floor with segmental arched ashlar heads and pronounced sills.
The Sunday School, to the west, has an entrance and seven single-light windows on the ground floor, and seven windows with pronounced sills on the first floor. The dwellings at the west end have a modern porch and one three-light stone mullioned window on both the first and second floors. An adjoining warehouse of the late 19th century is also present.
The chapel was founded in 1788 as a daughter church of Salendine Hook Baptist Chapel.
Local climate
Pole Moor Baptist Church Sunday School and Adjoining House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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