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Latitude: 53.6222 / 53°37'19"N
Longitude: -1.8826 / 1°52'57"W
OS Eastings: 407860
OS Northings: 413963
OS Grid: SE078139
Mapcode National: GBR HV9K.69
Mapcode Global: WHCB6.17S0
Plus Code: 9C5WJ4C8+VW
Entry Name: Lawsons Funeral Parlour
Listing Date: 11 July 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1221740
English Heritage Legacy ID: 413619
ID on this website: 101221740
Location: Hill Top, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD7
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Colne Valley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Huddersfield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Slaithwaite with East Scammonden St James
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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Slaithwaite
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Lawsons Funeral Parlour
II
Early C18 origin, largely built, 1842 in vernacular revival style. Formerly
Slaithwaite Free School, now funeral parlour. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar
dressings. Stone slate roof with deep ashlar parapet. Two storeys. East elevation:
symmetrical 5-bay facade. The centre bay is flanked by ashlar buttresses and
surmounted by small ashlar gable with carved bishops mitre and inscription 'REBUILT
MDCCCXLII. Central 1st floor, 3-light oriel window with transom with symbols at base
reading: 'Alpha Chi Rho, Omega', meaning 'Christ - the beginning and the end'.
Below, is inscription "to whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Col ii" (St Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, Chapter II, verse 3). Two cross
windows to left and right, 1st floor, and 3 cross windows and 2 Tudor arched entrances
to ground floor. West gable: Over door is inscription in capitals: "Slaithwaite
Free School founded by the Reverend Robert Meck AD 1721 Augmented by the benefactions
of Thomas Walker of Huddersfield, William Walker of Wakefield Esq and Michael
Abeket of Aneley Place. AD 1731 for a school of good literature and the catechism
contained in the liturgy of the Church of England". A further inscription concerns
the foundation of the school dated 1842. Part of the original west wall survives
arid has 3-light chamfered window, altered to ground floor. To lst floor is 3 over
5-light and 3 over 3-light double chamfered mullioned and transom windows.
Listing NGR: SE0786013963
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