Lingards Mission Church

SE 0713 LINGARDS ROAD Slaithwaite 13/244 Lingards Mission Church 19/7/73 (formerly listed as Lingards Mission School)

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1851 (datestone). Hammer dressed stone. Reducing diagonal buttresses to each corner. Ashlar plinth. Pitched slate roof with alternate pairs of courses: plain and serrated slates. Stone ridge. Square ashlar footstones. Corbelled ashlar cornice to gutter. Coped gables. To west is ashlar bellcote with coping with roll top (no bell). To east is seven sided tubular finial. South elevation: Stone porch to each end with pitched slate roofs and coped gables. Doorways have ashlar surrounds and pointed arched heads with chamfered reveals. Western doorway has hood mould over. Porches have side windows with chamfered reveals and hood mould over. The main elevation has three windows, each with three slender lights with pointed arched heads, chamfered surrounds and mullions, and deep hood mould over. Windows have diamond pattern leaded glazing. Inscription above inner door of west porch: LINGARDS CHURCH SCHOOL ERECTED A.D. MDCCCLI BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH WAS CONVEYED IN TRUST TO THE MINISTER AND CHAPEL WARDENS OF SLAITHWAITE CUM LINGARDS AND UNITED TO THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH THE REV. CHARLES AUGUSTUS HULBERT M.A.} JOHN DRANSFIELD AND JOHN VARLEY }First Trustees North elevation: Three windows as south elevation. Single window to each side (one blocked) with pointed arched heads and deep sills. Hood mould over. East and West elevations: Central 6-light window with transom, top two central lights are taller. Lights have pointed arched heads, chamfered reveals and mullions. Hood mould over with round stop.

Listing NGR: SE0722213169