Dewsbury Baptist Church, at Junction with Manor Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.
Dewsbury Baptist Church, at Junction with Manor Street
- WRENN ID
- south-arch-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Dewsbury Baptist Church, at Junction with Manor Street, Leeds Road, WF12 7BA
- OS grid reference
- SE 247 218
- Coordinates
- 53.6923, -1.62601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dewsbury Baptist Church is a Gothic Revival church that opened on December 7th, 1871, and was extended in 1923. It is constructed of pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a five-bay buttressed nave with a gabled facade. On the right side, there is a square tower topped with a splay-footed octagonal ashlar spire that includes lucarnes. To the left, there is a square squat tower with a hipped roof.
The facade features a three-bay arcaded and gabled porch supported by squat red granite columns with foliage capitals. This arcade includes a central door flanked by two-light traceried windows. Above the porch, there is a large six-light traceried window with triple arches at the top. The right tower has three tiers, with a paired lancet window on the second tier and a three-light traceried window on the third tier. A deep corbel table and a small moulded cornice support the spine.
To the left of the facade, there is an entrance to a single-storey ancillary accommodation, which is within an open, three-bay, arcaded porch similar to the main entrance. The side elevation features paired lancet windows with a circle in the head, which rise above the eaves in gabled dormers topped with wrought iron finials.
Additionally, there is a lower addition to the west gable that includes transept-like two-storey wings to the north and south for ancillary accommodation. Inside, there is a raking gallery at the rear of the church and a school room located beneath the church.
Local climate
Dewsbury Baptist Church, at Junction with Manor Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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