St. Mary's Church, Church Street, Honley
Details
- location: now on Church Street, Honley
- status: still exists
- architect: Robert Dennis Chantrell
- category: church or chapel
Consecrated in 1503.[1]
Noted local historian Mary Jagger published a series of six articles on the church in the Huddersfield Chronicle in 1888.
Historic England Listing
CHURCH STREET (Honley). Church of St Mary the Virgin (formerly listed as Church of St Mary). North-east/south-west Gothic revival Church. 1843 by R D Chantrell, with alterations in 1888 and addition in 1909. Hammer dressed stone, buttressed, with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof with ashlar roll-top copings. Hipped roofs to aisles. Three sided apse to chancel with 1888 stained glass and small bellcote at roof apex. Nave of 7 bays with clerestorey lights. Aisles with simple lancet lights with hood moulds, some with stained glass. Stone porch at each end of south-west side. Four tier bell tower with large pinnacles. Three-light louvred bell chamber. Clock face to each side. Vestry and organ chamber added to north end, 1909. Interior: Arcades of 7 bays on clustered colonnettes. Gallery at south-west end and extends for 5 bays to each side. Colourful "wine-glass" type pulpit (1888). Restored stencilling to chancel walls. Hammer beam trusses to roof. History: erected on site of chapels of pre-1507 and of 1750.
CHURCH STREET (Honley). Stocks in Yard of Church of St Mary the Virgin. C18 or earlier. Stone slotted sides and stone bottom rail with 4 notches. Formerly stood at Honley 'Gate'.
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Further Reading
Records
- Huddersfield & District Family History Society — baptisms 1813-1961
- Huddersfield & District Family History Society — burials 1813-1900
- Ancestry.co.uk — births & baptisms 1813-1810
- Ancestry.co.uk — marriages & banns 1837-1935
- Ancestry.co.uk — deaths & burials 1813-1985
- Find a Grave (1789-1856)
- Find a Grave (1856-?)
Location
Notes and References
- ↑ Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: Volume 3, West Riding (South) (2000) edited by John Wolffe.