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Description: Stone Craft Centre (formerly listed as Lightcliffe United Reformed Church, under Lightcliffe)

Address: Stone Craft Centre Leeds Road Lightcliffe Halifax West Yorkshire HX3 8NU

Grade: II

Group detail: Leeds Road (north side)

Full description:
Stonecraft centre, formally Lightcliffe United Reformed Church 1871, by Lockwood and Mawson (Bradford) for Sir Titus Salt. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Gothic Revival. Nave, transeptal chancel, west corner tower, south porch. Prominent tower with offset angle buttresses, pinnacles and octagonal stone spire. West door set between buttresses with 2 centred arched head. Clock in 2 faces and belfry formed by coupled lancets. West end of nave has tall offset crocketed pinnacled buttresses flank large window with pointed arch and geometric tracery with cinque foil. Nave has side aisles of 4 bays of Early English windows with pointed heads and plate tracery set between offset buttresses. Lancet windows to clerestorey. Transepts have offset angle buttresses, steeply pitched coped gables and large windows with geometric tracery. Similarly treated porch. Lower shallow chancel with rose window and small trefoil light to apex. Interior: Much remodelled. 1st floor retains open arcades to aisles now forming workshops and craft stall. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978) p.12.