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Latitude: 53.6559 / 53°39'21"N
Longitude: -1.7881 / 1°47'17"W
OS Eastings: 414102
OS Northings: 417729
OS Grid: SE141177
Mapcode National: GBR HVY5.P6
Mapcode Global: WHCB1.HCRP
Plus Code: 9C5WM646+8Q
Entry Name: Church of St John
Listing Date: 3 March 1952
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1217625
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407031
ID on this website: 101217625
Location: St John's Church, Shearing Cross, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD1
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: Church building
1.
5113 ST JOHN'S ROAD
(West Side)
Bay Hall
Church of St John
SE 1417 28/35 3.3.52.
II*
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Foundation stone laid 1851 by Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Bart, who built
the church in memory of his father. Consecrated 1853. Architect: William
Butterfield. Ashlar. Steep-pitched slate roofs. Coped gables. Lean-to aisle
roofs, parapeted. Buttresses. 5 bay nave, with tiny oculi to clerestory.
Chancel. South-west and north-west porches. Fine Geometrical tracery, especially at east and west ends. 4-stage tower in south-east corner, with imposing traceried bell-openings, openwork parapet, and octagonal corner pinnacles. Octagonal spire with 3 stages of gabled lucarnes, crocketed finial and weathervane. Interior Collar-braced roof, with lower struts inclined slightly inwards. Ashlar font and pulpit of massive, elemental forms. Characteristically simple wooden furnishings, the bench ends giving illusion of being slightly tilted.
Listing NGR: SE1410217729
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