Church of St John the Evangelist, Kirkburton
Description: Church of St John the Evangelist
Grade: II
Date Listed: 16 May 1984
English Heritage Building ID: 341151
OS Grid Reference: SE1998415093
OS Grid Coordinates: 419984, 415093
Latitude/Longitude: 53.6320, -1.6993
Location: Green Balk Lane, Kirkburton, Kirklees HD8 0EW
Locality: Kirkburton
Local Authority: Kirklees
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HD8 0EW
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Listing Text
SE 11 NE GREEN BALK LANE
SE 21 NW Lepton
2/36 Church of St. John
the Evangelist
G,V. II
Gothic Revival church in Early English style. 1866-8 by T. H. & F. Healey
of Bradford. The tower was added in 1876. Hammer dressed stone with
ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof. 4-bay buttressed nave with
lean-to south aisle. 2-bay chancel with squat buttresses with offsets.
Lean-to vestry and organ chamber to chancel south wall. Large south-
west 3-tier square tower with south doorway, paired tiny lights and
clock face to 2nd tier, and paired, louvred bell-chamber openings with
central colonnette. Crenellated parapet and mock machicolation.
4-light east window with plate tracery, with 2 trefoils and one
cinquefoil in head. 8-foiled windows to sides of chancel. Nave
and aisle windows are of 2, 3 and 4 lights with plate tracery most
with a trefoil in head, one with a quatrefoil and one with a cinquefoil.
Two lancets in west wall with 6-foil in apex.
Inferior: 4-bay south arcade, with massive arches on squat, apparently
undersized, columns. Panelled oak chancel and reredos. Well carved oak
chancel screen. Carved stone font. Recent partitioning of west end of
nave. Arched braced hammer-beam roof trusses, with turned king posts.
The tower formerly had a squat, square, slated spire.
Listing NGR: SE1998415093
Source: English Heritage
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