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Birkby Baptist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Huddersfield, Kirklees

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Latitude: 53.6593 / 53°39'33"N

Longitude: -1.7922 / 1°47'31"W

OS Eastings: 413828

OS Northings: 418106

OS Grid: SE138181

Mapcode National: GBR HVX3.SZ

Mapcode Global: WHCB1.F9S2

Plus Code: 9C5WM655+P4

Entry Name: Birkby Baptist Church

Listing Date: 29 September 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1066614

English Heritage Legacy ID: 422057

ID on this website: 101066614

Location: Birkby, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD2

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Greenhead

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Huddersfield

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: St John the Evangelist Huddersfield

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: Protestant church building

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Description


SE 1318 21/1389
5113

WHEATHOUSE ROAD (East Side)
Birkby,
Birkby Baptist Church

II

Circa 1900. Hammer dressed stone. Low pitched slate roof, with overhanging eaves. Broad tapering buttresses. Hall church plan. Flat-topped dormers with wooden tracery. Undercroft. Transept. South-west porch with hipped roof. Low crenellated tower in north-west angle, with gargoyles, pyramidal roof and tall wooden finial canted chapel on north side. 2-storey minister's house on north side canted bays with crenellated parapets. Door in moulded arch with gable arcs. Window tracery is of early C16 type, with some art nouveau flourished, eg in east and west windows.


Listing NGR: SE1382818106

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