Queensgate: St. Paul's Church
Details
Deposited Plan Number: | no data |
Date: | 1829 |
Plans Register: | no data |
Street: | Queensgate |
Property Name / Number: | St. Paul's Church |
Area: | HD1 2RD |
District: | Kirklees |
Town: | Huddersfield |
Grid Reference: | SE1465216377 |
Building Project: | St. Paul's Church |
Type: | Church |
Applicant: | no data |
Applicant Address: | no data |
Architect: | John Oates |
Architect Address: | no data |
Status of Project: | no data |
Contractor: | Joseph Kaye |
Contractor Address: | Buxton Road, Huddersfield |
Work Commenced: | no data |
Work Completed: | no data |
Occupants: | no data |
Subsequent Alterations / History: | Existing, Chancel added in 1883 (see record No.1208), Grade II Listed (3 March 1952) |
English Heritage Listing: | 1231471 — listed on 3 March 1952 (old ID: 406610) |
Location of Archives: | Kirklees West Yorkshire Archives |
Buildings of Huddersfield ID: | 3902 |
Additional Information
1829. Architect John Oates, contractor Joseph Kaye. Ashlar. Pitched slate roof.
Nave and aisles, chancel, vestry, west tower. Parapets. Buttresses, diagonal at corners, with pinnacles. 5-bay nave, 3-bay chancel with polygonal end.
All windows plain chamfered untraceried lancets, some with hoodmoulds. 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet. Octagonal spire with
2 stages of gabled lucanes. Aisle west doors have ogee mouldings with delicate sculpted ornament.
The chancel was added in 1883 designed by local architects John Kirk & Sons, its foundation stone laid by Lady Gwendolen
Ramsden.
Interior; Octagonal piers; tall arcade blind triforium arcade: clerestory lancets with colonettes. Flat roofs. Chancel has quadripartite rib vault.
West gallery. Good neo-classical marble tablet to Edward Learoyd, d 1857.
(Extract from English Heritage listed buildings service, record number 406610) http://lbonline.english-heritage.org.uk/BuildingDetailsForm.aspx?id=406610&search=y
Location
At the Same Location?
Record | Distance (feet & meters) | |
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Queen Street South / Ramsden Street: Restoration to St. Paul's Church Including New Chancel, Porches and Vestry (1883) - plan# 1208 | 28ft | 9m |