Milnsbridge: St Luke
Overview
Grid reference: SE 118 156
The church at Milnsbridge is of simple plan, having a rectangular nave of five bays and a chancel of one rectangular bay and an apse.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Nave of five bays without aisles but with galleries round three sides; chancel with semi-circular apse.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church was designed by William Wallen and built in 1845. Wallen, who died in 1853, practised in Huddersfield and designed a handful of churches round about, mostly of two cells in the lancet style. He also designed, with Charles Child, the George Hotel, a building in the Georgian style of 1849-50 beside Huddersfield Station. The west end of the church was remodelled in c. 1965.
Exterior Description
The style is Norman, and all the windows are of uniform pattern, with nook-shafts at each side with scalloped capitals and a roll-moulded arch. There is one of these to each bay all through the church, save for the second bay from the west in the north nave wall, where there is a doorway. The wall is thickened under a weathering to allow a round arch of two orders on two pairs of nook- shafts. On the flat wall surface above is carved in relief a triangular shield charged with the Agnus Dei and the arms of the Diocese of York, with a mitre above. The bays of the walls are divided by shallow pilaster strips which rise from a moulded plinth of purely classical derivation to a cusped corbel table. There is a moulded stringcourse at sill level and a roll-moulding at the springing of the window arches curves over each one as a hood-mould. The west wall of the church was rebuilt in c.1965 with five tall windows in the upper part, their heads sloping with the line of the gable, and a doorway in the middle below, under a ridiculous gabled porch, with two square windows on each side.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
Various
Only in the apse, The Ascension, 1882, flanked by St. Luke, by E.W. Cole, 1967 and St. Paul, c.1920, and one north window, St. Michael, c.1920 in the style of Burlison and Grylls.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior of the church also pays lip-service to the Norman style, but the plan is completely of the 1840's. The nave has a gallery on three sides carried on cast-iron columns and approached by two flights of stone steps at the west end. The columns have cushion capitals and the gallery fronts have round-arched arcading. Below the west gallery is a wooden screen with glazed panels near the top and in front of this is the font. The west gallery is partly partitioned off by a wall containing a large rectangular window to form a parish room. Vestries are contrived under the gallery within extensionsof the wooden screen. The galleries cut across the windows of the side walls. The roof is carried by transverse beams, two to a bay, with curved brackets and round arched struts. The floor is of stone flags in the aisles and the pews stand on wooden platforms. The north and south windows have plain glazing set in three different patterns derived from Norman motifs.
The chancel arch is presumably meant to be in a transitional style since it has half-cylindrical responds with waterleaf capitals and moulded bases. Both chancel and the apsidal sanctuary have a plaster rib vault, and the organ stands within a chamber on the south side of the chancel. On the north wall is wooden round-arched interlaced arcading. The sanctuary was later paved with black and white marble, but a scheme for clothing the walls in marble was never carried out.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
Mid 19th Century
The altar is of oak, doubtless contemporary with the church, with round arches decorated with dogtooth carried on ringed shafts.
Reredos
c.1900
The reredos consists of oak blind arcading in the Perpendicular style.
Pulpit
c.1920
The pulpit is an octagonal design of dark oak with a vine trail cornice and pierced traceried patterns in the upper parts of the panels.
Lectern
c.1880
The lectern is an oak eagle on a quatrefoil pillar stem.
Font (object)
1885
The font is of stone, octagonal on an octagonal marble stem with a moulded base and shields in alternate faces of the bowl, given by the Vicar and friends in 1885.
Organ (object)
The organ is a three-manual instrument by Peter Conacher
Rail
c.1900
The communion rails are of oak with vine trail on the uprights. and pierced quatrefoil cornice.
Churchyard
Grid reference: SE 118 156
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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