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Reference no. 1133792
Description: Tower to Old Church of St. Matthew (formerly listed as Old Church of St Matthew under Lightcliffe)
Address: Tower To Old Church Of St Matthews Wakefield Road Lightcliffe Halifax West Yorkshire
Grade: II
Group detail: Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe (north side)
Full description:
Tower to former church 1775 by William Mallinson (Halifax). Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings of square section, sheer to the crown which bears an octagonal arcaded cupola with ball finial. There is a round headed window to the ground floor with circular opening above. In the belfry is stone taken from an earlier church on this site inscribed:
'Deo et Sancto Mattaeo,
Apostolo Evangelistae,
Martyri Sacra,
A. O. DC XXIX.'
D. Wilding, A History of Two Lightcliffe Chapels, Centenary booklet 1979. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West-Riding, (London 1967), p.642.
D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse (Brighouse 1978), p.17.
Illustrated in G. Hepworth, Brighouse its scenery and antiquities (Halifax 1885), p.19.
