The Church of St Bartholomew, Ripponden
Description: The Church of St Bartholomew
Grade: II
Date Listed: 16 July 1984
English Heritage Building ID: 406343
OS Grid Reference: SE0411319780
OS Grid Coordinates: 404113, 419780
Latitude/Longitude: 53.6745, -1.9392
Location: Old Bank Road, Ripponden, Calderdale HX6 4AH
Locality: Ripponden
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 4AH
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Listing Text
SE 0419 RIPPONDEN (former U.D.) BRIDGE END, Ripponden
The Church of
9/20 St Bartholomew
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GV II
Church, 1868. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate roof. Nave, aisles, transceptal
chapels and south-west corner tower, chancel. Gothic Revival. 3 stage tower set
in 1st bay of aisle has angle buttresses with offsets. Doorway in 1st stage,
clock set between 2nd and 3rd stage which has 2-light belfry window with plate
tracery and quatrefoil. Broached octagonal spire with lucarnes in the principal
faces. 5-bay aisle with pointed arched 3-light windows with flowing tracery
with buttresses set between. 3-light clear-storey windows alternate with arched
light. Transepts have coped gables and pointed arched tracery window. 2-bay
chancel under lower roof line with large east window of 5 lights with flowing
tracery. Present church 4th to be built on site. 1st by Royal Charter Edward
IV, 1464; next 1610 and 1729.
Interior: 5-bay nave with pointed arches to arcade carried on clustered
colonnettes. 6-bay arch-braced roof. Carved reredos with arcades with painted
panels of the Apostles. Good carved pulpit in Gothic Revival style. Victorian
stained glass windows. Some wall tablets from earlier church; one of some
distinction with carved urn to John Howarth of Bridge Royd, Soyland who died
1804.
Listing NGR: SE0411319780
Source: English Heritage
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