Christ Church, Mount Pellon
Christ Church, Mount Pellon
Christ Church is a Grade II parish church on Church Lane, Mount Pellon, Halifax, in the Diocese of Leeds.
- Location
- Mount Pellon, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Mount Pellon
- Address
- Church Lane, Mount Pellon, Yorkshire, HX2 0EF
- Postcode
- HX2 0EF
- Built
- 1853–54; later north aisle, porch and chapel
- Architect
- Mallinson and Healey
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Christ
- Diocese
- Leeds
- Parish
- Christ Church Mount Pellon
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Decorated Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed dressed sandstone with freestone dressings; slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 074 260
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of 1853–54 by the Bradford partnership of Mallinson and Healey, with later addition of a north aisle, porch and chapel. The lead architect was probably James Mallinson. The contractor was B. Walton and Sons; the cost was £1,360, with a £125 grant from the Church Commissioners. The fabric is coursed dressed sandstone with freestone dressings under a slate roof. The plan is an aisled nave with a south-west tower, north-west porch, and a chancel with south organ chamber and north chapel. The style is a free Decorated Gothic. The three-stage tower has angle buttresses and an embattled parapet; its lower stage is the porch.
Nave arcades have quatrefoil piers with fillets. The church was re-ordered in 1999 when a first floor was added in the north aisle. The Church Heritage Record names the parish Christ Church Mount Pellon in the Archdeaconry of Halifax. The building occupies a commanding hillside site in industrial Halifax and has a densely occupied nineteenth-century graveyard.