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Barkisland
RIPPONDEN (former U.D.)
SCAMMONDEN ROAD (east side)
Christ Church

GV
II
Church. 1854 by Mallinson and Healey (Bradford). Hammer dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Nave, aisles, chancel, south porch. Five bay nave with flanking aisles with pointed arched windows with offset buttresses between. Porch set in second bay of aisle has coped gable surmounted by cross, pointed arched doorway. West window of three cusped lights, over gable is bellcote. Chancel has lower roof line, angle buttresses and three-light two bay east window with plate tracery.

Interior: five bay nave with pointed arches on clustered colonnettes. Six bay arch-braced roof. Gothic Revival stone carved reredos. Carved octagonal font with diaper surface carved with fleurons and symbols of the Apostles. Memorial tablet to William Baxter of the Lower Hall who gave the site.

Listing NGR: SE0542419885

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26566430

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)