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SE 1416 SE
4/2

QUEENSGATE (East Side)
St Paul's Hall,University of Huddersfield

(Formerly Listed as Huddersfield Polytechnic:(St Paul's Church), previously listed as Church of St Paul under General)

3.3.52.

II

1829. Architect; John Oates or Joseph Kaye. Ashlar. Pitched slate roof. Nave and aisles, chancel, vestry, west tower. Parapets. Buttresses, diagonal at corners, with pinnacles. Five-bay nave, three-bay chancel with polygonal end. All windows plain chamfered untraceried lancets, some with hoodmoulds. Three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet. Octagonal spire with two stages of gabled lucanes. Aisle west doors have ogee mouldings with delicate sculpted ornament.

The chancel was added in 1883, its foundation stone laid by Lady Gwendolen Ramsden.

Interior; Octagonal piers; tall arcade blind triforium arcade: clerestory lancets with colonettes. Flat roofs. Chancel has quadripartite rib vault. West gallery. Good neo-classical marble tablet to Edward Learoyd, d 1857.

Listing NGR: SE1465216377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525063

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)