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Latitude: 53.6629 / 53°39'46"N
Longitude: -1.8219 / 1°49'18"W
OS Eastings: 411866
OS Northings: 418505
OS Grid: SE118185
Mapcode National: GBR HVQ2.CP
Mapcode Global: WHCB0.Z6L9
Plus Code: 9C5WM57H+56
Entry Name: Lindley Methodist Church
Listing Date: 29 September 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1134287
English Heritage Legacy ID: 339798
ID on this website: 101134287
Location: Lindley Methodist Church, Birchencliffe, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD3
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Lindley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Huddersfield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Birchencliffe St Philip the Apostle
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Protestant church building
EAST STREET
1.
5113
(North Side)
Lindley
Lindley Methodist Church
SE 1118 20/470
II
2.
1867. Chancel, vestry and "north-east" transept designed by the Manchester
architect Edgar Wood, and built in 1895. Hammer-dressed stone. Pitched slate
roof. Hall church, with "west" transept surmounted by low tower with pyramidal
slate roof and finial on "south" side. 6-bay nave. Buttresses, with gabled
tops at west end. 2 storey "west" end, string at eaves level. 1st floor has
windows with Geometrical bar tracery, 4-light to nave, 2-light to tower:
oculi above each. Ground floor has central 2-centred door with hoodmould,
moulded surround and plate cusps, 2 pointed lancets with Geometrical plate
tracery, and 2 blocked doors either side, with segment-shaped Caernarvon lintels
and 2-centred moulded relieving arches with hoodmoulds. Aisle windows have
transoms and bar tracery. "East" window has late C19 Decorated bar tracery,
and reset, the date stone of the original 1795 church, inscribed (in lettering
characteristic of each period) "The Wesleyan Church. Anno Domini 1795. Re-erected
1867. Chancel 1895".
Edgar Wood had married into the Sykes family of Lindley, whose church this
was.
Listing NGR: SE1186618505
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