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Title: TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD, Lightcliffe - CBC04255
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TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD, Lightcliffe - CBC04255
Description
Grade II
Tower to former church 1775 by William Mallinson (Halifax). Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings of square section, sheer to the crown which bears an octagonal arcaded cupola with ball finial. There is a round headed window to the ground floor with circular opening above. In the belfry is stone taken from an earlier church on this site inscribed: 'Deo et Sancto Mattaeo Apostolo Evangelistae Martyri Sacra A. O. DC XXIX D. Wilding, A History of Two Lightcliffe Chapels, Centenary booklet 1979. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1967), p.642. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse (Brighouse 1978), p.17. Illustrated in G. Hepworth, Brighouse its scenery and antiquities (Halifax 1885), p.19.
Historic England Listing No: 1133792
NGR: SE 13980 25369
CMBC Ref: BR 190
Tower to former church 1775 by William Mallinson (Halifax). Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings of square section, sheer to the crown which bears an octagonal arcaded cupola with ball finial. There is a round headed window to the ground floor with circular opening above. In the belfry is stone taken from an earlier church on this site inscribed: 'Deo et Sancto Mattaeo Apostolo Evangelistae Martyri Sacra A. O. DC XXIX D. Wilding, A History of Two Lightcliffe Chapels, Centenary booklet 1979. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1967), p.642. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse (Brighouse 1978), p.17. Illustrated in G. Hepworth, Brighouse its scenery and antiquities (Halifax 1885), p.19.
Historic England Listing No: 1133792
NGR: SE 13980 25369
CMBC Ref: BR 190
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC04255.jpg
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Citation
“TOWER TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, WAKEFIELD ROAD, Lightcliffe - CBC04255,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed October 2, 2026, https://www.penninehorizons.org/items/show/42718.
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