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Gomersal Methodist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Batley, Kirklees

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Latitude: 53.7342 / 53°44'3"N

Longitude: -1.6905 / 1°41'25"W

OS Eastings: 420516

OS Northings: 426471

OS Grid: SE205264

Mapcode National: GBR JTM8.T3

Mapcode Global: WHC9Q.0D9M

Plus Code: 9C5WP8M5+MR

Entry Name: Gomersal Methodist Church

Listing Date: 30 April 1982

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1313715

English Heritage Legacy ID: 341035

ID on this website: 101313715

Location: Gomersal Methodist Church, Gomersal, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, BD19

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Liversedge and Gomersal

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Batley

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Gomersal St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE 22 NE SPENBOROUGH MB LATHAM LANE
GOMERSAL
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Gomersal Methodist Church
30.4.82
II


Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. 1827-8 at the instigation of E Brooke of
Honley. Dressed stone. Hipped roof. Two storeys with string course
and moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. A well proportioned
facade treated as a broad bow of 4 bays of fixed pane windows with
glazing bars and flat arched heads. A single flanking bay to left
and right is slightly lower with round arched doorway with recessed
reveals and stilted fanlight. Single light, similar to before, above
doorway.

The interior was partly refurbished in 1868. Galleried on 3 sides the
rear gallery being carved as the outside wall. The gallery fronts are
panelled, and the gallery is supported on slender tapering cast iron
columns with acanthus leaf capitals. Mainly box pewed. The central
pulpit has been successfully re-set in the organ loft gallery behind
which the handsome organ is set in an apse. Cast iron rails to rostrum.
Acanthus leaf ceiling roses, with a large one in centre, as vent, in
curvilinear diamond panel.


Listing NGR: SE2051626471

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