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Church of Holy Innocents

A Grade II Listed Building in Dewsbury, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6788 / 53°40'43"N

Longitude: -1.6355 / 1°38'7"W

OS Eastings: 424176

OS Northings: 420320

OS Grid: SE241203

Mapcode National: GBR KT0W.QZ

Mapcode Global: WHC9X.VSDM

Plus Code: 9C5WM9H7+GR

Entry Name: Church of Holy Innocents

Listing Date: 3 July 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1300421

English Heritage Legacy ID: 340780

ID on this website: 101300421

Location: Parish Church of Holy Innocents, Thornhill Lees, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF12

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Dewsbury South

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Dewsbury

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Thornhill Lees Holy Innocents with St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


DEWSBURY CB VICARAGE ROAD
SE 22 SW (Thornhill Lees)

2/93 Church of Holy Innocents

G.V. II


Large Gothic Revival church in Decorated style. 1858 by Mallinson
and Healy. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate
roofs. 5-bay nave with buttressed, lean-to north and south aisles.
South porch. 3-bay chancel with vestry on south side. Square west
tower with broach spire. Tower is of 3 tiers with angle buttresses.
Paired 2-light bell-chamber openings. The parapet is pierced with
trefoils and has large octagonal pinnacles, and gargoyles. The spire
has lucarnes and smaller ones higher up. The west window is of three
lights with two trefoils and one cinquefoil in head. The south porch
has elaborate moulded surround with filleted colonnettes and good
foliage capitals and drop tracery. 2-light clerestory windows with
simple tracery. North and south aisles have 3-light windows with
Decorated tracery. 2-light chancel windows with traceried heads.
5-light east window with two cinquefoils and one large circle in head.

Interior: 5-bay arcade to north and south on quatrefoil filleted
piers with plain capitals. Chancel arch on similar responds.
Arched braced hammer beam roof on colonnettes and corbels. Very
elaborate stone pulpit, and font, the latter with good, carved, tall,
cover with pinnacles.


Listing NGR: SE2417620320

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