All Souls Church, Halifax

All Souls Church, Halifax
All Souls Church, Halifax
All Souls Church, Halifax Location in West Yorkshire
Coordinates: 53°43′49″N 1°51′46″W / 53.7304°N 1.8628°W / 53.7304; -1.8628
OS grid reference	SE 091 260
Location	Haley Hill, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Churches Conservation Trust
History
Founder(s)	Edward Akroyd
Dedication	All Souls
Architecture
Functional status	Redundant
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	3 November 1954
Architect(s)	Sir George Gilbert Scott
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival (13th–14th century)
Groundbreaking	1856
Completed	1859
Specifications
Spire height	236 feet (71.93 m)
Materials	Stone, slate roofs

All Souls Church, Halifax, is a redundant Anglican church in Haley Hill, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

All Souls was commissioned and paid for by the local industrialist Edward Akroyd in 1856. The foundation stone was laid on 25 April that year. Akroyd appointed Sir George Gilbert Scott as architect, and the church was completed in 1859. Scott considered it to be his finest church. It was intended to be the centrepiece of the model village of Akroydon, and Scott also designed Akroyd's own house and garden, the vicarage and houses for his employees. There is a statue of Akroyd, in its own lawned enclosure, immediately adjacent to the church.

The church is constructed in stone, with slate roofs. The dressings are in magnesian limestone. Its plan is cruciform and its architectural style is of the 13th–14th century. In detail, its plan consists of a nave with a clerestory and north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a chancel with chapels to the north and south, and a south porch. At the northeast corner is a vestry, and in the northwest angle is a tower and spire. Under the tower is a baptistry. The nave measures 87 feet 6 inches (26.67 m) by 54 feet (16.46 m), the transepts 22 feet 6 inches (6.86 m) by 18 feet 9 inches (5.72 m), the chancel 37 feet 6 inches (11.43 m) by 24 feet 3 inches (7.39 m), and the chapels measure 15 feet (4.57 m) by 17 feet (5.18 m). The ridge of the roof is 65 feet (19.81 m) above the floor of the nave. The spire is 236 feet (71.93 m) high.