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Lydgate Oliver Heywood Memorial Sunday School

A Grade II Listed Building in Holmfirth, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5785 / 53°34'42"N

Longitude: -1.7616 / 1°45'41"W

OS Eastings: 415881

OS Northings: 409132

OS Grid: SE158091

Mapcode National: GBR JW41.DX

Mapcode Global: WHCBF.X99Y

Plus Code: 9C5WH6HQ+C9

Entry Name: Lydgate Oliver Heywood Memorial Sunday School

Listing Date: 30 April 1982

Last Amended: 4 August 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1134845

English Heritage Legacy ID: 340381

ID on this website: 101134845

Location: Lydgate, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD9

County: Kirklees

Civil Parish: Holme Valley

Built-Up Area: Holmfirth

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: New Mill Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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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

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