Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Church.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- under-tracery-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale
- OS grid reference
- SE 211 088
- Coordinates
- 53.57561, -1.68255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a Gothic Revival church built in 1876, with the lower stage of the tower possibly dating back to the 18th century. It features finely dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof with gable copings. The structure includes a two-stage square west tower, a four-bay nave with a gabled south porch, and a two-bay chancel with a vestry on the north side. The west tower has diagonal buttresses that are applied to the quoins of the earlier lower stage. On the south side of the tower, there is a small, blind, round-arched window with an inscribed lintel from 1767, along with a small ogee-headed window below it. A recent small addition is located at the base of the tower on the south side. The upper stage of the tower features large, louvred, two-light bell-chamber openings with reticulated tracery, a slated pyramidal roof, a moulded gutter on moulded brackets, and an iron weathercock. The nave has two-light windows, the chancel has single-light windows, and the east window is a three-light design, all with traceried heads.
Inside, the church has an arched-braced king-post roof in the nave and a scissor-braced truss in the chancel. The font, likely from the 17th century, has an octagonal bowl and pedestal, with paired traceried panels on the bowl and single traceried panels on the pedestal. The east window features colourful stained glass from 1879, while the chancel windows on the south side contain fine stained glass from 1938 and 1939 by William Morris and Co. of Westminster, with the latter signed.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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