Church of St Lucius is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Lucius
- WRENN ID
- lunar-spire-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Lucius, Butts Road, Kirkburton, HD4 6TZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 164 126
- Coordinates
- 53.6106, -1.75323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Lucius is a Gothic Revival church built in 1840 by architect R. D. Chantrell, founded by William, 4th Earl of Dartmouth. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a stone slate roof. The church features a stone gutter supported by carved square brackets, each displaying a different motif, with one bracket dated 1838. The structure includes a 4-bay nave, a 2-bay chancel, and a 2-tier west tower topped with a squat octagonal spire. Diagonal buttresses with shaped and crocketted offsets support the building.
The south porch has a very heavily moulded door surround. The nave windows are square-headed, featuring three lights with cusped, ogee-headed lights, although one window on the north side is blocked. The chancel has two similar two-light windows and a blind, moulded doorway. The east window is a 4-light design with Perpendicular tracery. The tower has an adjoining stair turret and a two-light west window with tracery. The second tier of the tower includes paired, cusped bell chamber openings with traceried heads, though the openings to the west are blocked.
Inside, the church has a very tall pointed arch leading to the tower and a shallow elliptical chancel arch. The interior features carved oak fittings and queen-post trusses supporting the roof.
Local climate
Church of St Lucius sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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