The Buildings of Huddersfield Keith Gibson & Albert Booth Tempus Publishing, 2005
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The Buildings of Huddersfield Keith Gibson & Albert Booth Tempus Publishing, 2005. Reprinted with revisions to text, The History Press, 2009. Notes on Sources of Information. 1. Descriptions of Buildings are based on our own physical impressions of the buildings & on information provided in the descriptions of buildings contained in the List of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest. 2. This note provides details of the other sources of information that we found most useful. 3. Other sources include: The List of Buildings of Architectural &/or Historic Interest. Archer, John, Partnership in Style, (Catalogue to an exhibition of the works of Edgar Wood & J. Henry Sellers), Manchester City Art Gallery, Oct/Nov 1975. Banney Royd Study Group, Banney Royd: an Agreeable House, Kirklees MC 1991 Bentley, Phyllis, Colne Valley Cloth, Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce, 1947. Bielby, A. Ronald, Churches and Chapels of Kirklees, Kirklees MC 1978 Binney, Marcus; Fitzgerald, Ron; Langenbach, Randolph; and Powell, Ken, Satanic Mills; Industrial Architecture in the Pennines, Save Britain‘s Heritage. (n.d) Brook, Roy, The Story of Huddersfield, MacGibbon & Kee, 1968 Browning, L & Senior R.K, The Old Yards of Huddersfield, Huddersfield Civic Society, 1986 ISBN 0 9511749 08 (and reprint of 2004) Caffyn, Lucy, Workers‟ Housing in West Yorkshire, 1750 – 1920, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1986. ISBN 0 11 30000 2 Crump, W.B & Ghorbal, Gertrude, History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry, Tolson Memorial Museum, 1935 (reprinted, 1988), Kirklees MC, ISBN 0900746 26 2 Gibson. Keith Pennine Dreams: the story of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Tempus Publishing, 2002 (reprinted 2004) ISBN 0 7524 2751 2 Giles, Colum, Rural Houses of West Yorkshire, 1400 – 1830, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1986. ISBN 0 11 701194 0 Giles, Colum and Goodall, Ian. H, Yorkshire Textile Mills, the Buildings of the Yorkshire Textile Industry, 1770 – 1930, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments in England and West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1992. ISBN 0 11 300038 3 Green, Dave, Huddersfield Pubs, Tempus Publishing, 2007 ISBN 978 0 7524 4165 5 Haigh, Brian, Past & Present Huddersfield: the changing face of the town & its people, Sutton/W.H. Smith, 2002, ISBN 0 7509 3108 6. Ed. Haigh, Hilary E.A, Huddersfield, a Most Handsome Town: aspects of the history and culture of a West Yorkshire Town, Kirklees MC, 1992. ISBN 0 900746 52 3 Hunt, Tristram, Building Jerusalem: the rise and fall of the Victorian City, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004 ISBN 0 297 607677 Law. Edward J, Joseph Kaye, Builder of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, Huddersfield Local History Society, 1989. Linstrum, Derek, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, Lund Humphries, 1978 Place, Allen, Pray Remember the Poor: the Poor Law and Huddersfield, Holme Valley Civic Society, 2004 Redmonds, George, Old Huddersfield 1500 -1800, Huddersfield, 1981 Redmonds, George, The making of Huddersfield, Wharncliffe Books, 2003, ISBN 1 903425 39 5 Ryder, Peter, Medieval Churches of West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993 ISBN 1 870453 17 4. Sheeran, George, Brass Castles: West Yorkshire New Rich and their Houses, 1800 – 1914, Ryburn 1993 Teasdale, Vivien, Huddersfield Mills: a Textile Heritage, Wharncliffe Books, 2004 ISBN 1 903425 77 8 Waterson, Edward and Meadows, Peter, Lost Houses of the West Riding, Raines, York, 1998 ISBN 0 9516494 4 2 Wyles, D.J., The Buildings of Huddersfield; four architectural walks. Kirklees MC ISBN 0 900746 16 5 (nd) Wyles, David, The Buildings of Huddersfield: four architectural walks. Huddersfield Civic Society, 2006 ISBN 0-9548899-3-2 In addition, a useful series of essays, bringing together known information about architects and surveyors in Victorian Huddersfield, can be found on a website about local history created by Edward Law. See: http:/homepage.eircom.net/~lawedd/index.htm. Chapter 1 Early Days. 1. Parish Church of All Hallows, Almondbury. List Descriptions: (a) Church (Listed Grade I): Chancel C13th. Flanking chapels C14th (lengthened in C190th). West tower apparently C15th, possibly the result of an indulgence of 1485 for the repair of the church. Nave and aisles could also be the result of the 1485 indulgence, but the windows appear to be early C16th, and the nave roof is dated 1522 (battlements and pinnacles 1872-7). South porch C19th. Hammer dressed stone and ashlar. Pitched stone slate roofs, aisle roofs lean-to. Chancel has north and south lancets, externally obscured by the C19th extensions of the flanking chapels. 3 east windows, the flanking ones round-arched with elementary bar tracery, the central one now of 3-lights with cusped Perpendicular tracery, but originally 3 stepped lancets with relieving arch. Clerestory and aisles windows both of 3 lights each, with uninterrupted mullions, and cusped 2-centred arched lights, the clerestory windows oblong, the aisle windows with 3-centred heads and hoodmoulds. Tower has diagonal buttresses with many set-offs and gargoyles at top. Crenellated parapet. Crocketted pinnacles. West door in deeply moulded 2-centred arch. 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery, in 2-centred arch with hoodmould. Large 3-light bell openings bin 2-centred openings with hoodmould. Interior. Nave has 5-bay arcade with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and moulded voussoirs. Double chamfered tower arch dying into imposts. Double chamfered chancel arch on moulded capitals. Chancel has 2-bay arcade to north, with double chamfered voussoirs and moulded corbels. 3-bay arcade to south, its capitals decorated with Tudor roses and fleurs-de-lys. Nave has particularly fine timber ceiling with an inscription running round cornice, with name Geferay Daystre as the joiner, and 1522 as the date: shallow pitch, all beams moulded and bosses elaborately ornamented. Chancel has hammer-beam roof, apparently C19th. Good Perpendicular timber traceried screen to north chapel. Outstanding C17th joinery font cover (c.f. Bradford and Halifax). Gothic Survival tracery and 3 tiers of perforated canopies. Good C15th stained glass in east window and in north chapel, restored (and possibly re-set) by the 5th Earl of Dartmouth in 1879. Fenay family pew 1605. Early C18th gilded eagle lectern. Various monuments, of which the best are ti Mathew Wentworth of Bretton (d.1574) (slab incised with figure in armour), William Lister of Thornton- in-Craven (d.1701) (lively Baroque cartouche). And Sir Arthur Kaye of Woodsome Hall (d1726) (upright architectural composition). (b) Walls & Gates to Churchyard (Listed Grade II): C19th. Hammer dressed stone walls with coped walls with coped top. Gates to east late C19th, cast iron, with art nouveau octails. Gates to south have rusticated piers with ball finials: very elaborate mid C19th cast iron gates. South-west of church tower, the wall incorporates a plaque originally in the Clerk‘s house, which stood here until demolished in 1907. It reads, ―1765. Built by Mrs Jane Fenay for the Parish Clerk who is not to sell any Ale, Wine or Strong Liquor.‖ (c) Stocks in Churchyard, south-west of tower (Listed Grade II): Presumably C17th or C18th. 2 stone uprights. Lower plate stone. Upper plate timber. 4 holes. Iron clamps Roy Brook, The Story of Huddersfield (Macgibbon & Kee, 1968): ‗The origins of Almondbury Parish Church are obscure and it is impossible to say when it was built. Taking for granted the de Laci‘s reputation as Church builders, and, if we associate the Church with the building of Almondbury Castle in the days of King Stephen (1135 - 1154), then we arrive at a time somewhere in the first half of the twelfth century. … The original church was probably on the site of the present chancel.‘ Peter Ryder, Medieval Churches of West Yorkshire (West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, 1993): (Description): ‗A large and interesting church consisting of a five-bay aisled nave with west tower and south porch, and a chancel with side chapels. The side walls of the nave above the arcades are of uncertain date; they are presumably older than the eastern extension of the chancel which has late 13th century windows. Everything else looks to date from the late 15th to early 16th century remodelling, except for the eastern bays of the chancel chapels and the embattled parapets with their pinnacles, which are late 19th century. … The nave ceiling, with gilded bosses and a long inscription dated 1522, is probably the finest in the county. Fifteenth century glass with figures of saints is preserved in two of the windows in the north chapel; a section of the medieval rood beam is kept in the same chapel. The font has a 16th century canopy.‘ (From the main text): ‗Other churches … have masonry in their nave walls that pre-dates their earliest architectural features, and which might … be pre-Conquest … Almondbury (falls) into this category.‘ ‗A major development in window form took place in the mid 13th century, in that several lights were combined under one arch. The simplest form of this is seen at Almondbury, where the earlier chancel (of uncertain date) seems to have been extended eastwards around 1250; in its side walls, now enclosed by 19th century chapels, are windows consisting of a pair of lancet-like lights enclosed within a larger pointed arch; the spandrel of the arch is simply a blind panel, without any decoration or piercing.‘ ‗… (Late) medieval panelled ceilings are surprisingly common in West Yorkshire (about 15 survive); originally most have been decorated with polychrome bosses at the intersections of the timbers, and possibly by paintings within the panels as well. … Perhaps the most dramatic … is that at All Hallows, Almondbury. The Perpendicular remodelling of the church seems to have spanned at least 30 years: there is an Indulgence for the repair of the building granted in 1486, but the nave ceiling is dated to 1522.