Description

DEWSBURY CB off WHITLEY ROAD
SE 21 NW (Whitley Lower)

5/102
Church of St. Mary &
St. Michael

II

Large Neo-Norman church. 1847. Chancel appears to be later.
Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings and moulded ashlar
plinth. Pitched, blue, fishscale-slated roof, and plain, green
slate chancel roof. 4-bay nave, 3-bay chancel and 4-tier,
square, west tower with squat pyramidal, tiled roof. Round
arched 2-light nave windows with round arched lights and
colonnettes to reveals and as centre mullion all with scalloped
capitals. Diaperwork in the tympana. Bold hood moulds.
Saw-tooth corbel-table to eaves. Round-arched south doorway
projects with gable over, and has 4 orders of decoration, 3
colonnettes with decorative capitals, and very elaborate hinges
to door. The chancel has small round-arched archivolted single
lights, and billet-moulded corbel-table. East window of 3 small
round-arched lights. In gable apex is large wheel window.

The tower has angle buttresses and a small stair tower. Round-
arched and heavily decorated west doorway with 2 colonnettes with
scalloped capitals. At 2nd tier level is a 4-light window with
round arched lights, the outer 2 blind, above which are intersecting
over-arches. Similar windows to north and south. Bell-chamber
openings in the nook-shafted 4th tier, are 2-light with bold surround
and colonnettes.

Interior: 4-bay round arcade, to each side, on broad columns with
square base and various decorative capitals. Organ at rear under
fine, decorative tower arch on large responds. Large round font
with engaged colonnettes. Open-back pews with gothic finials.
Good, carved gothic wooden pulpit, with linen-fold and traceried
panels, on stone base. Good wooden commemorative lectern of 1910,
an angel holding the reading desk over head. Very elaborately
carved gothic chancel screen with doors. Choir stalls in chancel.
Deep window reveals in chancel with colonnettes and zig-zag
decoration. Stained glass. Piscina and sedilia. Close trusses
to chancel roof.

Listing NGR: SE2226017657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587705

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