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Latitude: 53.6875 / 53°41'14"N
Longitude: -1.6413 / 1°38'28"W
OS Eastings: 423786
OS Northings: 421285
OS Grid: SE237212
Mapcode National: GBR JTZS.GW
Mapcode Global: WHC9X.RKMY
Plus Code: 9C5WM9P5+XF
Entry Name: Church of St Paulinus
Listing Date: 3 July 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1134723
English Heritage Legacy ID: 340703
ID on this website: 101134723
Location: West Town, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF13
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Dewsbury West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Dewsbury
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Dewsbury Team Parish
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD
SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)
2/19 Church of St Paulinus
In the description the sentence:
"In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in marble."
should be amended to read:
"In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in plaster."
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DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD
SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)
2/19
Church of St. Paulinus
G.V. II
Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church. 1871 by Edward Welby Pugin.
Pitched-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. A tall
slender building on a steeply sloping site. 9-bay nave. 3-bay
chancel with 3-bay porch to right. Bays are marked by slender
buttresses. Paired lancets with cusped heads and 6-foil over, to
nave and apse. Single lancets with simple tracery to chancel. On
the very tall south side is lean-to aisle with lancets, and lancets
to the clerestorey. To the left is a small projecting baptistry bay
with an 8-foiled rose window.
Interior: Arcade to south of 6 bays. Very large square bases to
the columns. Gallery to rear with elegant carved oak screen below.
Chancel arch on small colonnette responds, at high level, with heavily
foliated capital and corbel. In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna
and Christ in marble. 14 stations of the cross in the nave.
Listing NGR: SE2378621285
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