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Blackley Baptist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Elland, Calderdale

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6756 / 53°40'32"N

Longitude: -1.8477 / 1°50'51"W

OS Eastings: 410158

OS Northings: 419910

OS Grid: SE101199

Mapcode National: GBR HTJY.S4

Mapcode Global: WHC9T.LWC3

Plus Code: 9C5WM5G2+6W

Entry Name: Blackley Baptist Church

Listing Date: 29 April 1982

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1313954

English Heritage Legacy ID: 338430

ID on this website: 101313954

Location: Blackley Baptist Church, Blackley, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX5

County: Calderdale

Electoral Ward/Division: Elland

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Elland All Saints,

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


ELLAND BLACKLEY ROAD
SE 101199 (west side)

4/6 Blackley Baptist Church
29.4.82
II

Large chapel on a prominent hilltop site. 1878. Dressed sandstone with ashlar
dressings. Tall 2-storey pediment-gabled front. Plinth string and sill courses,
deeply moulded pediment. Archivolt arched windows, with marginal glazing,
grouped to centre above paired doorways with archivolt arched fanlights framed
by engaged Roman Doric columns with common entablature.

Interior with continuous curve-ended raked gallery on cast iron columns with
foliate caps. Stairs with richly turned balusters and newels rising to both
sides of deeply panelled pulpit. Moulded beam ceiling with rose vent to each
bay. Downstairs the box pews are focused to front in hemicycle. Built to seat
a congregation of around 1600. The earlier 1789 chapel remains to the west as
the caretaker's house.


Listing NGR: SE1015819910

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