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Reference no. 1232274
Description: Ripponden Congregational Church and Sunday School
Address: Former Zion Congregational Church Oldham Road Ripponden Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire
Grade: II
Group detail: Oldham Road (west side)
Full description:
Church and attached Sunday School 1869. Rock faced stone, slate roof with tiled ridges. Main vessel aligned north - south with gabled transept towards ritual east end and small hipped roofed vestry beyond. At ritual west end is a narthex with projecting porch under bell-turret broached to an octagon with stone pyramidal roof. Early french gothic. Windows of 2 pointed lights and to transept of 3 lights separated by colonnettes; unmoulded lancet bell-openings. Rose window at ritual west end. Narthex formed of lean-to roof supported by low arcade on coupled shafts. Porch swells on one side into a small apse with half conical roof. School attached to ritual east end, but with separate doorway abutting vestry, has gabled hipped roof broken by half dormer with 2-light pointed window.
