Description

MIRFIELD UD HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
SE 21 NW (Mirfield)

5/125
Trinity Methodist Church

G.V. II

Large Methodist Chapel. Dated 1877. Ashlar front with rock-faced
sides. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. 5-bay gabled front, 6-bay
sides. At the front the central 3 bays break forward and are
surmounted by open pediment with bracketed cornice. Bold eaves
cornice to flanking bays. Corners and central break marked by giant
pilasters with highly elaborate foliated capitals. 1st floor cornice.
3 central round-arched doorways up 7 steps with flanking iron rail on
dwarf wall. Double doors with 6 fielded panels and semi-circular
fanlights. Enriched impost band with foliage, fruit and birds.
Above is a triple group of round arched windows with square headed
lights, blind tympana and colonnettes with enriched capitals.
Elongated and enriched keystones. Above is raised capitals is
TRINITY 1877 CHURCH. Flanking bays have round-arched windows with
enriched impost band. Round-arched windows to side elevations, and
square-headed basement windows. Marginal glazing.
Enrichments are particularly elaborate with a high standard of carving.

Interior: Horseshoe, raking gallery, with panelled front, on slender
cast iron columns with foliated and floral capitals. Good organ case
at front flanked by paired pilasters with elaborate foliated and floral
capitals. Good large pulpit with stair to each side. Communion
area in front flanked by choir stalls. Pews arranged to focus on
pulpit. Ceiling divided into large panels with centre roses and
elaborate plaster ribs. Dentilled and bracketed'cornice.

A. R. Bielby, Churches & Chapels of Kirklees, 1974.

Listing NGR: SE2046019745

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587666

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)