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Latitude: 53.8374 / 53°50'14"N
Longitude: -1.7329 / 1°43'58"W
OS Eastings: 417671
OS Northings: 437941
OS Grid: SE176379
Mapcode National: GBR JP1.DY
Mapcode Global: WHC93.CT11
Plus Code: 9C5WR7P8+XR
Entry Name: The Old Bell Chapel
Listing Date: 4 September 1952
Last Amended: 9 August 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1133673
English Heritage Legacy ID: 337239
ID on this website: 101133673
Location: Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD10
County: Bradford
Electoral Ward/Division: Idle and Thackley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bradford
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Idle Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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SE 1737
19/76
Idle BD10
TOWN LANE
The Old Bell Chapel
(formerly listed as Idle YMCA Youth and Community Centre, TOWN GATE, previously listed as Sunday School)
4.9.52
II*
Built as a chapel of ease in 1630 but not consecrated until 1692 and prior to this date used by non-conformist congregations as well, an unusual case. On an island site the chapel is erected on a plain rectangular plan, built of coursed gritstone with plinth and flush quoins. Stone slate roof, coped gable ends with shaped kneelers surmounted by small ball finials. Small square stone bellcot to north-west gable with corbel support, blind arched panels to sides, small crow wing finial. The side windows of the chapel have a domestic character with chamfered mullioned-transomed round-headed lights. The south-east gable has a large window with simple Perpendicular tracery formed by diminishing rows of round-headed lights, a pattern very similar to the Old Bell Chapel at Thornton and Holy Trinity, Low Moor. On east side is a moulted jamb doorway with ogee shaped head dated 1630. The interior has been modernised.
Listing NGR: SE1767137941
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