Church of Emmanuel is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Church.
Church of Emmanuel
- WRENN ID
- late-slate-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Emmanuel, Huddersfield Road, Kirkburton
- OS grid reference
- SE 211 112
- Coordinates
- 53.59784, -1.6813
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Emmanuel is a Gothic Revival church built in 1868. It is constructed of hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a pitched slate roof. The church features a nave with three bays, a south aisle with four bays, and a two-bay chancel. In the south-west corner stands a square three-tier tower, which has angle buttresses and an entrance on the south side with a deep, moulded surround. The tower includes two-light deeply chamfered bell-chamber openings with traceried heads, a clock face on three sides, a crenellated parapet with gargoyles, and a squat, pyramidal slated spire. The nave windows on the north side are three-light with intersecting tracery, featuring two quatrefoils and one trefoil in the head. The aisle windows are two-light with tracery, and there is a rose window at the east end of the aisle. The east window is three-light with a traceried head, while the large west window is four-light with curvilinear tracery.
Inside, there is a four-bay arcade to the south supported by quatrefoil piers. The chancel arch is set on paired red granite colonnettes resting on corbel brackets. The roof features an arched braced hammer beam design. The font, of the 'Tulip' type from 1868, has a tall, carved oak cover that was added in 1894.
Local climate
Church of Emmanuel 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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