Latitude: 53.5922 / 53°35'31"N
Longitude: -1.8513 / 1°51'4"W
OS Eastings: 409937
OS Northings: 410637
OS Grid: SE099106
Mapcode National: GBR HVHX.Z0
Mapcode Global: WHCB6.JZM0
Plus Code: 9C5WH4RX+VF
Entry Name: Church of St Bartholomew
Listing Date: 6 April 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313662
English Heritage Legacy ID: 340845
ID on this website: 101313662
Location: Meltham, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD9
County: Kirklees
Civil Parish: Meltham
Built-Up Area: Meltham
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Christ the King, Meltham
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
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Church of St. Bartholomew
6 th April 1967
II
Classical church on site of church of 1651. 1782-6. Thought to be
by Joseph Jagger. Tower and north transept added 1835 by J P Pritchett.
Neo-Norman chancel added 1877-8 by John Kirk. Tower and nave, ashlar
with raised quoins. Chancel, hammer dressed stone. Stone slate roof
with gable copings on square kneelers. Moulded eaves cornice. Two
storey nave with band between floors. 6-bay nave, 2-bay chancel,
square west tower. Single light windows to nave, 4 to ground floor,
south side, and doorway to left and right with architrave, pulvinated
frieze and cornce. 3-bay transept on north side, one bay deep, with
single light windows, as nave, and oculus in gable apex. Chancel has
slender round arched single lights with hood moulds. The east window
has 3 equal round headed slender single lights with colonnettes with
broad foliated capitals. Group of 3 small round-arched lights in
gable apex. 3-tier west tower has blind round-arched windows in recess
to 2nd tier. Tall 3-light, louvred bell chamber openings. Corner
pilasters to bell chamber, supporting architrave, frieze and cornice,
with blocking course and 4 large urns.
Interior. Gallery to rear and north over aisle, on slender cast iron
columns. Panelled gallery fronts with balustrade. Wood panelled
coffered ceiling. Round chancel arch on paired, squat, red granite
colonnettes. Neo-Norman font presented 1878. Various early and mid
C19 wall memorials including one to James Brook, d. 1845 by H Mares,
depicting kneeling woman by an altar.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE0993710637
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