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Westborough Methodist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Dewsbury, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6981 / 53°41'53"N

Longitude: -1.6493 / 1°38'57"W

OS Eastings: 423254

OS Northings: 422461

OS Grid: SE232224

Mapcode National: GBR JTXP.Q2

Mapcode Global: WHC9X.M9VT

Plus Code: 9C5WM9X2+67

Entry Name: Westborough Methodist Church

Listing Date: 3 July 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1313653

English Heritage Legacy ID: 340694

ID on this website: 101313653

Location: Westborough Methodist Church, Westborough, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF13

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Dewsbury West

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Dewsbury

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Dewsbury Team Parish

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


DEWSBURY CB BRUNSWICK STREET
SE 21 SW (West borough)

2/10
Westborough Methodist
Church

II


Methodist Church. 1876. In restrained Gothic Revival style.
Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof.
Gable fronted with moulded arched doorway to left and right in
deep, chamfered reveals. Central 4-light window with large wheel
in head. Over the gable which surmounts the left doorway, is a
tall, square, 3-tier tower, formerly with clock to 2nd tier. Two
slender louvred bell-chamber openings, to 3rd tier, in deep,
chamfered reveals. Corbel-table over supports splay-footed
ashlar, octagonal spire with four lucarnes. Transept to each
side elevation with 4-light window with wheel, as front. Windows
to side elevations are small lancets.

Interior: Raking gallery to rear now behind recent partition with
large arched opening. Similar arched openings to each side of
pulpit, the one to right containing the organ, the one to left with
panelled partition with glazed traceried upper part containing a
large wheel. Polished pine furniture. Panelled roof, closed at
collar level of the arched-braced trusses. Central pulpit with
stair to each side with turned balusters. Similar communion rail.


Listing NGR: SE2325422461

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