Description

SE 10 NE HOLMFIRTH ROAD
5/154 (New Mill)

30.4.82 Lydgate Oliver Heywood
Memorial Sunday School
(formerly listed as
Lydgate Oliver Wood
Memorial Sunday School)

II

Sunday School. 1910. By Edgar Wood and James Henry Sellers. Hammer dressed stone
with ashlar dressings. Flat roof with parapet. Modest but sophisticated Arts and
Crafts bow frontage to simple hall of 6 bays of round arched windows. Ashlar, single
storey bow front, with close set windows. Central door in recessed porch, with
architrave surround and tent gable in parapet over. The set back upper level of the
main hall has central ashlar portion with mullioned and transomed fenestration.
Inscribed above window in large letters is:

LYDGATE SUNDAY SCHOOL OLIVER HEYWOOD MEMORIAL

Decorative parapet over. High standard of ashlar work and detailing are noteworthy.

Listing NGR: SE1588109132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428238

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)