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Latitude: 53.6502 / 53°39'0"N
Longitude: -1.8418 / 1°50'30"W
OS Eastings: 410551
OS Northings: 417085
OS Grid: SE105170
Mapcode National: GBR HVL7.17
Mapcode Global: WHCB0.PJ42
Plus Code: 9C5WM525+37
Entry Name: Longwood Baptist Sunday School and Meeting Rooms
Listing Date: 22 August 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357497
English Heritage Legacy ID: 422645
ID on this website: 101357497
Location: Leymoor, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD3
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Golcar
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Huddersfield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Longwood St Mark the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Architectural structure
LONGWOOD GATE
1.
5113
(east side)
SE 1017 & SE 1117 Longwood
26/1100
Longwood Baptist Sunday School
II and Meeting Rooms
2.
Baptist School and Meeting House. 1837. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings,
Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 8 bays. Plinth band. Gabled porch to right of centre
has step up to double door under fanlight in round-arched quoined surround with
voussoirs aligned to courses and tabled keystone; oval plaque above doorway inscribed
"LONGWOOD BAPTIST SCHOOL AND MEETING HOUSE"; moulded kneelers, coping and finial to
gable; to returns, a round-arched window with imposts and moulded gutter brackets.
Windows on ground floor of meeting house are sashes with margin lights with raised
cills and lintel band. 1st-floor windows are round-arched with horizontal glazing
bars, raised cills and imposts. Coved gutter brackets on table. Inturned kneelers,
coping. Stack to left gable. Right return: small round-arched window in gable. The
building was used as the first meeting place for the Mechanics' Institute c1845 and
it also housed the Reading Room and News Room and the Discussion Society.
Listing NGR: SE1055117085
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