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Latitude: 53.6788 / 53°40'43"N
Longitude: -1.6355 / 1°38'7"W
OS Eastings: 424176
OS Northings: 420320
OS Grid: SE241203
Mapcode National: GBR KT0W.QZ
Mapcode Global: WHC9X.VSDM
Plus Code: 9C5WM9H7+GR
Entry Name: Church of Holy Innocents
Listing Date: 3 July 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1300421
English Heritage Legacy ID: 340780
Also known as: Church of the Holy Innocents, Thornhill Lees
ID on this website: 101300421
Location: Parish Church of Holy Innocents, Thornhill Lees, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF12
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Dewsbury South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Dewsbury
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Thornhill Lees Holy Innocents with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
DEWSBURY CB VICARAGE ROAD SE 22 SW (Thornhill Lees)
2/93 Church of Holy Innocents
G.V. II
Large Gothic Revival church in Decorated style. 1858 by Mallinson and Healy. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roofs. 5-bay nave with buttressed, lean-to north and south aisles. South porch. 3-bay chancel with vestry on south side. Square west tower with broach spire. Tower is of 3 tiers with angle buttresses. Paired 2-light bell-chamber openings. The parapet is pierced with trefoils and has large octagonal pinnacles, and gargoyles. The spire has lucarnes and smaller ones higher up. The west window is of three lights with two trefoils and one cinquefoil in head. The south porch has elaborate moulded surround with filleted colonnettes and good foliage capitals and drop tracery. 2-light clerestory windows with simple tracery. North and south aisles have 3-light windows with Decorated tracery. 2-light chancel windows with traceried heads. 5-light east window with two cinquefoils and one large circle in head.
Interior: 5-bay arcade to north and south on quatrefoil filleted piers with plain capitals. Chancel arch on similar responds. Arched braced hammer beam roof on colonnettes and corbels. Very elaborate stone pulpit, and font, the latter with good, carved, tall, cover with pinnacles.
Listing NGR: SE2417620320
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