Sunday School to Upper Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1978. School.
Sunday School to Upper Independent Chapel
- WRENN ID
- pale-kitchen-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1978
- Type
- School
- Address
- Sunday School to Upper Independent Chapel, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 222 237
- Coordinates
- 53.70954, -1.66415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Congregational Sunday school, dated 1856, located in Heckmondwike on High Street. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a hipped slate roof that is covered in bitumen. The structure is two storeys high and includes a string course. The five-bay facade has the central three bays that project slightly forward and are topped with a pediment. This pediment contains a blind oculus in the tympanum, supported by elaborate foliage, and features a raised inscription that reads: "INDEPENDENT DAY AND SABBATH SCHOOLS. ANNO DOMINI 1856." The ground floor windows are round arched, with a double string course at the impost level, while the first-floor windows are also round arched but have slightly pointed heads, elongated keys, and Composite pilaster surrounds. The side elevations consist of three bays, similar to the front, and there is a later four-bay addition at the rear.
Local climate
Sunday School to Upper Independent Chapel receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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