Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. A Victorian Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- ancient-flint-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 22 SW BATLEY MB STAINCLIFFE HALL ROAD STAINCLIFFE
4/45 Christ Church
II
Gothic Revival Church in style of 1300 (Pevsner). 1867 by W H Crossland of Leeds, unfinished. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Pitched slate roof. 5-bay nave, 2-bay chancel. North and south aisles each with porch. 3 tier west tower with diagonal buttressing and crenellated parapet with tall crocketted pinnacles. The tower was designed to have a tall slender spire but this was not built. Bell chamber has traceried 6-light louvred openings. 5-light stained glass east window, traceried with engaged colonnettes with foliated capitals, and hood mould with figure head stops. Similar 4-light west window. 3-light clerestory windows, traceried with 3 trefoils. 2-light aisle windows with stained glass to south, one of which is German. Hood moulds over have plain square stops and were presumably to have been carved in situ. Interior features include tall chancel arch with foliage carving. Aisle arches on quatrefoil columns with capitals carved with vines. Screened Lady Chapel to north side. Round carved stone font. Hammer beam roof. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1979.
Listing NGR: SE2306523614
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