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Description: Church of St. Martin

Address: St. Martins Church Church Lane Brighouse West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Church Lane, Brighouse

Full description:
Commissioners' Church. 1831 by L. Hammerton. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Nave, west tower and added chancel c1906 by Hodgson Fowler. No aisles. Nave has 6 bays of lancet windows with 'Y'-tracery, angle buttresses between each bay with pointed heads and weathering. Embattled parapet. Between nave and chancel is octagonal pinnacle. Chancel has similar buttresses dividing 3 bays of arch headed windows with more decorative tracery. East window of similar character under string course which rises parallel with gable. Plain parpet. Tower of 3 stages with set back buttresses has empty niche to 1st stage over arch headed doorway. 2nd stage added clock c1846 over arched window. Belfry has 'Y'-tracery. Embattled parapet has crocketed pinnacles. The west front has 3 tall lancets with 'Y'-tracery, one in 1st stage of tower. Interior: Wide bare nave with flat partly covered ceiling. Large west gallery originally on 3 sides now cut back. Complete furnishings in perpendicular style, including painted and carved rerdos. Elaborate pulpit 1912. One window of glass in Pre-Raphaelite style. c1820 by Morris, and fine East window with figures of saints. N. Pevsner Yorkshire West Riding (London 1967) p. 147 G. Hepworth Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities (Halifax 1885) p. 8