Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Church, school.
Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- tenth-eave-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1982
- Type
- Church, school
- Address
- Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School, Oxford Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 208 263
- Coordinates
- 53.73349, -1.68593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School is a United Reformed Chapel with an adjoining Sunday School, built between 1825 and 1826, with the Sunday School possibly dating from an earlier time. The building is constructed of dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and includes a plinth and a first-floor sill band. The main hall has a three-bay pedimented front and is five bays long. The central doorway is framed by an architrave with a frieze and cornice above, featuring double doors with narrow fielded panels and a rectangular fanlight with marginal glazing. The ground floor has round-arched windows set in recessed panels that extend to the plinth, while the first floor has round-arched windows, with the central window in a recessed panel, all of which have marginal glazing. An oculus is present in the tympanum of the pediment. The interior has a gallery and was partly refurbished in the 1860s. The Sunday School wing is also two storeys high, with a hipped stone slate roof, four bays, and round-arched sash windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Grove Congregational Church and Sunday School 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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