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Longwood Baptist Sunday School and Meeting Rooms

A Grade II Listed Building in Golcar, Kirklees

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Coordinates

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

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Description


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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