page_title: William Swinden Barber
section_title: All Saints' Vicarage (now Stafford Hall), Skircoat Green, 1861
hierarchical_section_title: William Swinden Barber / Independent works / All Saints' Vicarage (now Stafford Hall), Skircoat Green, 1861
caption_attribution_description: All Saints Vicarage, Dudwell, now known as Stafford Hall, off Huddersfield Road, Skircoat Green, Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was designed by architect William Swinden Barber in 1861 and is owned by Kirklees Council. In 2010 it was derelict, but the Council has re-opened it as a children's home. There is no public access to this building.
context_page_description: William Swinden Barber FRIBA, also W. S. Barber or W. Swinden Barber, was an English Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts architect, specialising in modest but finely furnished Anglican churches. The Barber churches often had crenellated bell-towers. He was based in Brighouse and Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. At least 15 surviving examples of his work are Grade II listed buildings including his 1875 design for the Victoria Cross at Akroydon. An 1864 portrait by David Wilkie Wynfield depicts him in Romantic garb, holding a flower. He served in the Artists Rifles regiment in the 1860s alongside Wynfield and other contemporary artists.
context_section_description: This is a Grade II listed building. There is a picture of the building on its Images of England listing page. It is situated near St Albans Presbytery off Dudwell Lane, Skircoat Green, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX3 0AT, and it was designed by Barber at a building cost of £2,300 in 1861, before Barber and Mallinson began their professional partnership. It is a large, two-storey, gabled, detached house built in Gothic Revival style of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and bay windows. The left-hand chimney stack has a panel inscribed "1861." Inside, the stairway has "bulbous turned balusters and newels plus moulded hand rail." It was later sold by the Church of England, and became Stafford Hall, then became a retirement home. As of 2010 it was under the control of Calderdale Council and had become dilapidated. By 2014 the building had been renovated and had re-opened as a children's home. There is no public access to the building.
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caption: Stafford Hall, 2014
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