Longcauseway Church, Dewsbury
Longcauseway Church, Dewsbury
Longcauseway Church is a Grade II Gothic Revival building on Longcauseway in Dewsbury town centre. It is a Local Ecumenical Partnership of the United Reformed Church and the Methodist Church.
- Location
- Dewsbury, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Dewsbury
- Address
- Longcauseway, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, WF13 1NH
- Postcode
- WF13 1NH
- Built
- Opened 15 January 1884; third Ebenezer Chapel on the site
- Architect
- Walter Hanstock
- Denomination
- Local Ecumenical Partnership
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival (Decorated)
- Materials
- White Holmfirth ashlar to the front and hammer-dressed stone; Westmorland slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 246 216
- Opening hours
- The café is open on Wednesday 12noon to 3pm. There is a Saturday Coffee morning 9.45am to 11.45am. The sanctuary is open on Wednesday, Friday morning and Saturday morning.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists the former Ebenezer Congregational Church of 1884 by Walter Hanstock, in Decorated Gothic Revival: white Holmfirth ashlar to the front, hammer-dressed stone elsewhere, and a pitched Westmorland slate roof. The four-bay front has a large central arched and gabled portal with grey granite colonnettes and a carved Resurrection in the tympanum. Six gabled side bays are divided by buttresses. Inside are a panelled pulpit and communion table, pitch-pine pews, a good organ case in the six-sided apse, an elaborate plaster frieze and a vaulted panelled roof.
The congregation records that this third Ebenezer Chapel on the site opened on 15 January 1884, cost £8,891 and could seat 800. It joined the United Reformed Church in 1972. Town-centre redevelopment closed the building in 1981; it reopened in 1983 with new ancillary rooms. In September 2010 the church formed a Local Ecumenical Partnership with Methodist congregations in Dewsbury.