Lydgate Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1967. Chapel.
Lydgate Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- errant-gable-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1967
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Lydgate Unitarian Chapel, Holmfirth Road, Holme Valley
- OS grid reference
- SE 159 091
- Coordinates
- 53.57868, -1.7608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lydgate Unitarian Chapel, originally built as a Presbyterian chapel in 1695 and remodeled in 1768, is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features quoins. The chapel has a slate roof with gable copings supported by carved kneelers. Its gable front has a cupola at the apex topped with a ball finial, and is supported by six hexagonal columns. The central door is set within a round arch that includes a keystone and impost blocks, with a small window on each side that shares similar detailing. The front elevation also has three round-arched windows with keystones, impost blocks, and decorative glazing. At the rear gable wall, there are two Venetian windows. Inside, the chapel is said to contain early 19th-century wall memorials, one dated 1814, and a portion of box pew panelling inscribed with "John Armitage 1695." Oliver Heywood preached at the chapel's opening in 1695.
Local climate
Lydgate Unitarian Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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