Description

SE1539NW BAILDON BROWGATE
(west side)

10/4 Baildon Moravian
30.4.82 (4/15) Church

GV II

Moravian Church. c1868 by Samuel Jackson (Bradford). Dressed stone,
Welsh blue-slate roof. Simple Gothic Revival style. The north gable
has main entrance with pointed-arched doorway with inner chamfered
jambs with cusped lintel. This is flanked by cusped lancets. Above
doorway are a pair of plate tracery 2-light windows with trefoils to
heads, flush with relieving arches in gable which is coped with kneelers
and surmounted by bellcote. Return walls have 4 bays of 2-light cusped
windows with trefoils; corbelled gutter brackets. Steeply-pitched roof
with 4 gabled vents with pierced work to arches of louvres.

Interior: not inspected.

Particularly prominent hill top site with terraced approach. Replaces
a church of 1806.
W. P. Baildon, Baildon and the Baildons, (1913) Vol I, p31.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978) p379.

Listing NGR: SE1544639599

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426340

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