Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- open-belfry-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 22 SW SPENBOROUGH MB CHURCH LANE LIVERSEDGE 4/96 12/1/67 Christ Church
II
Large Gothic Revival Church. 1812-16. By Thomas Taylor of Leeds. Ashlar and dressed stone. Pitched slate roof with crenellated parapet. West tower, 5-bay nave with clerestorey lean-to aisles, 2-bay chancel with side chapel and vestry. Large 3-light aisle windows and 2-light clerestory windows all with Perpendicular tracery and hood mould. Bay divisions are marked by gabled buttresses. Large perpendicular east window with panel tracery. 4 tier tower with angle buttresses. Doorway on south side and blocked doorway on west side. 6-light louvred and traceried openings to bell chamber. Crenellated parapet and crocketted pinnacles.
Interior: 5-bay arcades on octagonal piers. Gallery to rear, presumably later, with panelled oak front, on slender oak columns. Fine oak rood screen, 1911-12, with the 12 northern saints carved at the bottom. Slender supports rise to fan and support crested cornice with frieze which is very elaborately carved with vines. East window stained glass of 1864. Hexagonal marble font elaborately carved with lion, bull, angel, eagle, lamb and shield.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire: Architects and Architecture, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE2029023979
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