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Lingards Mission Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Colne Valley, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.615 / 53°36'54"N

Longitude: -1.8923 / 1°53'32"W

OS Eastings: 407222

OS Northings: 413169

OS Grid: SE072131

Mapcode National: GBR HV7M.3V

Mapcode Global: WHB91.XD2H

Plus Code: 9C5WJ485+23

Entry Name: Lingards Mission Church

Listing Date: 19 July 1973

Last Amended: 11 July 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1275735

English Heritage Legacy ID: 411432

ID on this website: 101275735

Location: Rotcher, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD7

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Colne Valley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Slaithwaite with East Scammonden St James

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE 0713 LINGARDS ROAD
Slaithwaite
13/244
Lingards Mission Church
19/7/73 (formerly listed as
Lingards Mission School)

- II

1851 (datestone). Hammer dressed stone. Reducing diagonal buttresses to each
corner. Ashlar plinth. Pitched slate roof with alternate pairs of courses: plain
and serrated slates. Stone ridge. Square ashlar footstones. Corbelled ashlar
cornice to gutter. Coped gables. To west is ashlar bellcote with coping with
roll top (no bell). To east is seven sided tubular finial. South elevation: Stone
porch to each end with pitched slate roofs and coped gables. Doorways have ashlar
surrounds and pointed arched heads with chamfered reveals. Western doorway has
hood mould over. Porches have side windows with chamfered reveals and hood mould
over. The main elevation has three windows, each with three slender lights with
pointed arched heads, chamfered surrounds and mullions, and deep hood mould over.
Windows have diamond pattern leaded glazing. Inscription above inner door of west
porch:
LINGARDS CHURCH SCHOOL
ERECTED A.D. MDCCCLI BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH
WAS CONVEYED IN TRUST TO THE MINISTER AND
CHAPEL WARDENS OF SLAITHWAITE CUM LINGARDS
AND UNITED TO THE NATIONAL SOCIETY
FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR
IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH
THE REV. CHARLES AUGUSTUS HULBERT M.A.}
JOHN DRANSFIELD AND JOHN VARLEY }First Trustees
North elevation: Three windows as south elevation. Single window to each side
(one blocked) with pointed arched heads and deep sills. Hood mould over. East
and West elevations: Central 6-light window with transom, top two central lights
are taller. Lights have pointed arched heads, chamfered reveals and mullions.
Hood mould over with round stop.


Listing NGR: SE0722213169

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