Church Of Holy Innocents

DEWSBURY CB VICARAGE ROAD SE 22 SW (Thornhill Lees)

2/93 Church of Holy Innocents

G.V. II

Large Gothic Revival church in Decorated style. 1858 by Mallinson and Healy. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roofs. 5-bay nave with buttressed, lean-to north and south aisles. South porch. 3-bay chancel with vestry on south side. Square west tower with broach spire. Tower is of 3 tiers with angle buttresses. Paired 2-light bell-chamber openings. The parapet is pierced with trefoils and has large octagonal pinnacles, and gargoyles. The spire has lucarnes and smaller ones higher up. The west window is of three lights with two trefoils and one cinquefoil in head. The south porch has elaborate moulded surround with filleted colonnettes and good foliage capitals and drop tracery. 2-light clerestory windows with simple tracery. North and south aisles have 3-light windows with Decorated tracery. 2-light chancel windows with traceried heads. 5-light east window with two cinquefoils and one large circle in head.

Interior: 5-bay arcade to north and south on quatrefoil filleted piers with plain capitals. Chancel arch on similar responds. Arched braced hammer beam roof on colonnettes and corbels. Very elaborate stone pulpit, and font, the latter with good, carved, tall, cover with pinnacles.

Listing NGR: SE2417620320