In 1893 Barber was working from 28 George Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire. As of 2014, bearing in mind Barber's long and prolific career, it was likely that there must be unknown works yet to be credited to his name, so the following is an incomplete list.
All Saints' Vicarage (now Stafford Hall), Skircoat Green, 1861 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." By 2014 the building had been renovated and had re-opened as a children's home. There is no public access to the building.
Church of St Peter, Huddersfield, 1873 Huddersfield Parish Church is a
Grade II listed building on Byram Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. There has been a church on this site since the 12th century, and it was rebuilt 1834–36 by
James Pigott Pritchett. Barber effected an interior re-ordering of this building at a cost of £2,500 in 1873, as follows. The box pews were replaced by open and cushioned stalls, and the gallery seats were cleaned and painted. The old pulpit was replaced with one of carved oak in Gothic design. There was new flooring of encaustic tiles made by Maw's and laid by W and S Thornton of Huddersfield. John Brook of High Street, Huddersfield, did the painting; possibly decorative fresco or stencilled work. There was gas lighting by brass standards and wall brackets. The whole of the woodwork, including stalls, pulpits, screens (including the screen work in the north and south transepts) was designed by Barber and carried out under his supervision. James Christie was the sole contractor for all the woodwork, and Joseph Shaw was one of the sub-contractors for the carving, working under Christie.
Victoria Cross at Akroydon, 1875 This is a
Grade II listed building.
Akroydon's housing scheme in
Boothtown, Halifax, was designed in 1859 by
George Gilbert Scott for
Edward Akroyd, and Barber's monument in the central square was designed in 1873, and completed by 11 May 1877. It is designed in the style of an
Eleanor cross and is dedicated to Queen Victoria and the "English constitution in Church and State." Inscribed on it is a quotation from
William Wordsworth's
The Excursion. The statue of Queen Victoria in coronation robes was expected in 1873 to be executed by
John Birnie Philip, although he died in 1875. When completed, the square and Cross had a formal inauguration ceremony performed by Mrs Ackroyd on Saturday 29 April 1876. The dedication on the monument says: "Erected as a monument of Christian reverence for the emblem of the Cross and of loyalty to our sovereign lady Queen Victoria, by Edward Akroyd, the founder of Akroydon, 1875. Fear God, Honour the King." The monument also serves as a
World War I war memorial. The first and last scenes of the 1972
BBC TV play,
A Day Out, by
Alan Bennett are filmed in front of the Victoria Cross.
Church of St Matthew, Lightcliffe, 1874–75 This is a
Grade II listed building in Wakefield Road,
Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire. Barber designed this church as a replacement for Lightcliffe Old Church, of which the tower remains on another site. The foundation stone was laid on Tuesday 16 September 1873, when the crane supports broke, causing injuries to several people. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Ripon on 22 September 1875. It cost £15,000 to build, and has a tower including the turret. The nave is long by wide, with aisles of wide. It has a Caen stone pulpit carved by
John Birnie Philip, who also carved the
reredos, and who created many works for
George Gilbert Scott. James Clinsty of Huddersfield carved the font cover, and
Charles Mawer of Leeds carved the capitals and other stonework. The church originally had an 1874 pipe organ by Booth & Kirkland, but this was replaced in 1905 with an organ by W. Andrews. Harry Percy Jackson carved the Watkinson Chapel and stalls.
Church of St Matthew, Rastrick, 1875 , a joint Anglican/Methodist church partnership. This is a
Grade II* listed building on Church Street,
A643 road,
Rastrick. Barber did not design this 1798 church, but carried out a major refurbishment in 1875. He replaced the ground floor
box pews with a "sea of low-backed pews of pitch pine," although the box pews in the gallery remained untouched. "The three-decked
pulpit was divided and removed to the north and South of the chancel, and a central passage was formed, at a cost of from £400 to £500." A new altar was placed in the sanctuary, and on the east wall Barber put a frieze, representing "Goodly Fellowship of the prophets and Glorious Company of the Apostles."
Stainland Cross, 1875 The Stainland Cross, on Stainland Road in
Stainland, is a
Grade II listed building. It represents a
saltier or St Andrew's cross, carved on a block of stone. On 3 September 1875,
The Building News published the following announcement: "The Stainland Board of Surveyors have given permission to have the ancient cross in Stainland restored according to plans by Mr Barber of Halifax." In the twentieth century the Cross was moved to a position opposite Stainland Church. The railings in old images of the Cross in its previous position, were probably added by Barber.
Church of St Paul, Drighlington, 1876 This is a
Grade II listed building on Whitehall Road,
Drighlington, West Yorkshire. Barber designed this Gothic Revival building in 1876 at a cost of £7,400 as a replacement near the site of an earlier
Moravian Church of 1797, which he demolished in January 1878, having possibly re-used some of the stone. It was consecrated at 11.30 am on Friday 26 April 1878 by the Bishop of Ripon who called the church "beautiful," and the
Leeds Mercury commented on the attractive "plain but massive" structure. The consecration was attended by a large congregation which retired directly afterwards to luncheon in the local schoolroom, where Barber was given a vote of thanks for his work. The tower contains eight bells which were cast and hung in 1880. The sanctuary was remodelled in 1928 by diocesan architect
Sir Charles Nicholson.
Abbott's Ladies Homes, Skircoat Green, 1876 These are
Grade II listed buildings on Skircoat Green Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire. In enactment of the Will of woolstapler John Abbott (1796–1870), twelve almshouses were built with a porter's lodge and walls and gates, all designed by Barber in 1876 at a total land-purchase and building cost of £17,880. The project was opened in January 1777. As of 2014 the charity was still functioning, providing accommodation for the elderly.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Warley, 1877 This is a
Grade II listed building. St John's in Windle Royd Lane,
Warley,
Halifax, was designed by Barber and built between 1877 and 1878. This was a replacement for a wooden church built in 1856 in Windle Royd Lane further uphill. It was designed in Gothic Revival style for a congregation of 320–342, built at a cost of £3,930–4,000 with a church grant of £240 and consecrated in 1878. The building was planned as a nave and chancel, with everything else to the south: the nave aisle, tower, vestry and organ chamber. It is built of locally quarried sandstone with grey freestone dressings. The tower, notable for its large pinnacles, is attached to the north-west corner of the nave, with a square turret housing a spiral tower staircase to the bell-ringers' chamber only, this turret being tucked between the spire and the nave. The tower's ground floor is the church entrance, and the clock mechanism and clock faces between the ringers' chamber and the belfry were added in 1905. The chancel has an
open wagon roof and the nave has closely spaced rafters. Due to the 2005 interior re-ordering, there is little left of Barber's designed and commissioned furnishings, but his floors may still exist, concealed beneath carpeting. There is an octagonal font and a round stone pulpit with "open arcading and
fleurons" which may possibly be to his original 1877 design. The reason for listing is given as the exterior architecture by Barber as a local architect, and the church's position in the landscape.
Church of All Saints, Netherthong, 1877 This Gothic Revival parish church in Town Gate,
Netherthong,
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire is a
Grade II listed building designed in 1830 by
Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793–1872), architect of
Leeds Minster. A Caen stone
credence table was built into the south wall of the chancel, there was new heating and gas lighting, and all windows had been replaced. Gill & Co. were the stonemasons. Items donated by the congregation were the altar cloth, altar rails and standards, alms dish and collecting bags, brass pulpit desk and lights, oak chairs, brass lectern and a new font carved by sculptor George Dyson of Crosland Moor. The 1877 chancel gave occasion for a new reredos. On Sunday 27 July 1879 three special services raising £13 in collections were given at the church by the vicars of Newmill, Meltham and Linthwaite to inaugurate the reredos. The reredos was replaced in 1920 and is now lost, but the
Huddersfield Chronicle described it thus in 1879:"It is of richly carved oak with croquets and
terminals and illuminated panels, with
emblems representing the
Four Evangelists, the
Agnus Dei and the
Cross occupying the central position; the whole being further enriched by the not too frequent use of the
fleur-de-lys. The
dado is richly illuminated on
zinc." It is a large building for its simple, bell-gable design. It retains its original pews, font and pulpit. It has two bells by John Taylor of Loughborough and Mears & Stainbank, plus a clock with tower mechanism.
Church of St James the Less, New Mills, 1880 This is a
Grade II listed building in
New Mills; the associated almshouses, also designed by Barber in 1880, are also Grade II listed. Barber said he bore "ungrudging testimony to the good workmanship and willingness" of his craftsmen on this job. They painted the ceiling red and gold. This church at Spring Bank, New Mills, Derbyshire, was restored in 2011–2012 and is now Spring Bank Arts Centre.
Methodist Church of St John, Halifax, 1880 St John's
Methodist Church in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was sited at the corner of Harrison Road and Prescott Street. It was also known as St John's Wesleyan Church or Chapel, and was designed in
Perpendicular Gothic style by Barber in 1880. It had a
rose window and a
Caen stone pulpit by Thompson of Peterborough. The building was declared redundant in 1965 and was demolished in September 1966, to be replaced by Trinity Court flats.
Church of St John the Divine, Thorpe, 1880 This was one of the first reinforced concrete churches in the UK. It stood on Rochdale Road,
Triangle, Thorpe, Halifax, West Yorkshire. Barber designed it for a congregation of 300 at a building cost of £7,000 in 1880. It was consecrated on 23 September of that year. It had a carved, Caen stone altarpiece and stained glass windows by
Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London. The building sustained severe fire damage in 1917; it cost £5,000 to restore, and was reconsecrated on 17 June 1923. It closed on 9 June 1968 and was demolished in 1973.
Church of St Peter, Hartshead, 1881 This is a
Grade II* listed building in Church Lane,
Hartshead, West Yorkshire. This Anglo-Norman church of 1120 was heavily and completely restored by Barber at a building cost of £2,530 in 1881, and his work is included in the English Heritage listing description. In the churchyard is a sundial of 1610 and a watch house or bier house of around 1828 which has been used as a school room. On the opposite side of the road are stocks; these three items are also listed.
Church of St Paul, Eastthorpe, Mirfield, 1881 This is a
Grade II listed building on Huddersfield Road,
Mirfield, West Yorkshire. It was designed by Barber at a building cost of £8,000 and consecrated on Tuesday 1 November 1881 by Bishop Ryan. The foundation stone was laid on 25 January 1881 by Edward Theodore Ingham, JP, of Blake Hall, in memory of Rev. Ralph Maude, a previous vicar of Mirfield. The ground plan was designed as a by parallelogram in the interior. The interior nave was designed to be wide, and the chancel wide. The pillars of the nave and chancel together formed seven bays, and those columns are
Dalbeattie granite monoliths from the quarries of Shearer, Field & Co. The interior walls are faced with local polished ashlar wallstones. There is a porch on the south side, and a doorway on the north side through the tower. Originally this north doorway had an "ornamental carved and moulded oak screen with tracery headed panels filled with cathedral glass with lead cameo." The clock was made by William Potts of Leeds and installed in 1882; the autowind motor was installed by another company.
Extensions to King James Grammar School, Almondbury, 1880–83 This is a
Grade II listed building on St Helen's Gate at
Almondbury, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. However Barber's extensions to the structure are specifically not included in the listing. Barber added the south wing in 1880: it has a classroom, dormitory, master's room, kitchen, and bedrooms for domestic staff. In 1883 he added more rooms, possibly to the south wing. These were a schoolroom, classroom, dormitory and master's room.
Church of St James, Chapelthorpe, 1882 This is a
Grade II listed building on Church Lane,
Chapelthorpe,
Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 3JG. The church had been built in 1771, and Barber enlarged it by adding the chancel and sanctuary in 1882. He replaced the pews and pulpit, and removed the gallery, reading desk and clerk's desk. Barber's chancel took up 178 square yards of the churchyard, and increased the interior length of the building to . and was rebuilt with the original 17th and 19th century stone walls and openings. Therefore, Barber's exterior survives, rebuilt with the same materials and to the same plan. It was Barber who noticed during the 1882 building work that one of the stones built into the east wall was of 13th-century origin, indicating the date of an earlier church on the site. It is situated in Church Lane,
East Ardsley near
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and was designed by Barber between 1880 and 1884 as a rebuild, using a
Norman doorway from the previous church, which was a
chapel of ease for the Church of St Mary at
Woodkirk. St Mary's was owned by the 12th-century
Nostell Priory (which now has a
mansion of the same name on its site). The Perpendicular-style west tower is in four stages and has battlements, angle buttresses and an octagonal south-west exterior spiral staircase which goes up to a turret doorway onto the roof. Barber used "large, re-marked, punch-dressed stone" and supplemented it with
Morley stone brought from Denton quarries. There are memorial windows by
Heaton, Butler and Bayne. St Michael's contains some monuments and furnishings from the earlier church, for example there is a 1663 octagonal font, and in the vestry is 17th-century panelling made from box pews. As in some of Barber's other churches, the chancel has a lower roof than the nave.
Church of St Oswald, Filey, 1885 This is a
Grade I listed building in Church Cliff Drive,
Filey,
Scarborough, the oldest parts of which were built in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Barber restored and partly rebuilt it in 1885, but the roof was fire-damaged in 1908 and had to be partly rebuilt. The extent of Barber's renovation is unknown, but the south porch and nave windows are his work.
Church of St John the Divine, Menston, 1885 This was an enlargement by Barber consisting of a new north aisle and vestries for an existing 1871 church in Burley Lane,
Menston, West Yorkshire. The plans were created in 1884–85 and the building was completed in 1886. There have been other additions since Barber's work. In 1890 an organ chamber was added, with an organ by I.W. Binns of Bramley; the organ has been rebuilt several times since then. In 1920 a reredos and panelling were installed in the sanctuary; the reredos has now been removed. In 1950 the organ was rebuilt, the pulpit moved and pews and other carved furniture such as pew ends, pulpit, lectern and baptistry screen were made by
Thompson's of Kilburn. In 1970 a
Lady chapel and two vestries were designed by architect Michael Ryley. There is a
World War I memorial listing not just those who died, but all those who served in the war. It was consecrated on 29 September of that year by the
Bishop of Ripon. It is substantial but simple, in
Gothic Revival and
Arts and Crafts style. It is furnished with its original carved
reredos,
pulpit and
font by William Pashley, and stained glass windows by
Charles Eamer Kempe. The floor is of decorative encaustic tiles, and there are six bells in the tower. There was originally a carved statue of St Michael overcoming the Dragon, possibly by William Pashley, but this is now missing. The church remains in use and apart from the missing statue is an example of Arts and Crafts architecture in pristine and unchanged condition.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Cleckheaton, 1886 This is a
Grade II listed building at Church Street,
Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire. The church was originally designed in 1830–32 by
Peter Atkinson Junior, but only the tower of his building remains. Barber rebuilt the rest in 1886–88 in hammer-dressed stone. It has a five-bay nave with buttressed aisles, and the chancel has a further two bays. It has a south porch and a vestry wing to the chancel. The east window has five lights. The tower has three tiers and a south doorway. The tower used to have pinnacles, now gone. In the chancel there is a carved stone reredos of the
Last Supper, date unknown. This church at Stainland Road,
Stainland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, was rebuilt by architect Charles Child in 1839, using the remaining tower and north and south walls of the 1754 St Bartholomew's Chapel. It was consecrated in 1840 by the
Bishop of Ripon. In 1887 Barber partly rebuilt and enlarged it. In 1898 a Harrison organ was installed in the church. Around 2008 the church had major alterations in which a large social area, toilets and kitchen facilities were placed at the rear of the church.
Church of St Mark, Old Leeds Road, 1887 The former Church of St Mark, Old Leeds Road,
Huddersfield, was an
Anglican parish church in
West Yorkshire. It was designed in 1886 by Barber when the parish of
St Peter's was split and a new building was required to accommodate a growing
congregation. It was opened in 1887. Among the vicars posted in this benefice were the very popular Canon
Percy Holbrook, the notoriously unfortunate Reverend
Jonas Pilling who was involved in a standoff with his congregation for many years, the sociable Reverend
Robert Alfred Humble who died in mysterious circumstances, and the eloquent preacher Reverend
Joseph Miller, who had previously been a Congregational minister.
Church of St Jude, Savile Park, 1888 This is a
Grade II listed building in Savile Park Road,
Savile Park, Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was designed by Barber and ground broken in 1888, and the foundation stone was laid in May 1889, although it was not inscribed until the early 1900s. The tower is high to the pinnacles, and its design was exhibited at the
Royal Academy of Arts. The building is long and wide. Barber's fees charged to the Building Committee included "coins for bottle in foundation stone." The building was funded by brothers John and William Baldwin who paid £8,400 in total including boundary walls. The church was consecrated on Thursday 13 November 1890 by Bishop
Walsham How. The
font was originally in the south-west corner (now moved to centre) and is carved out of
Caen stone, with
St Jude's symbol of a fishing boat; there is a similar symbol carved in the organ arch. The font has the original carved wooden cover which once featured a dove
finial. However, much of the remaining interior has been redesigned since 1889, giving it a different appearance. For example, it had
gas lighting, which was replaced with
electric lighting in 1904. There was originally an
organ by Abbott and Smith of
Leeds, and this was renovated between 1932 and 1974. In spite of these and other interior changes, the English Heritage description says: "It is a large suburban church retaining its late C19 character, in a prominent position on the edge of Savile Park, where it makes an important contribution to the historical integrity of the local townscape. The interior preserves a traditional late C19 layout retaining nearly all of its original fixtures."
Lodge at Shroggs Park, Halifax, 1892 In 1892 Barber designed the lodge at the entrance to the park in Lee Mount Road, Halifax, after
Edward Milner had designed the park in 1881. At the back of the lodge the date 1892 is carved on the wall under the gable. In a similar position at the front of the building is carved the coat of arms of
Halifax. At some point in the 19th or 20th century the upper floor was lowered; it now obscures the interior tops of the ground floor windows. The upstairs rooms contain an original cast iron fireplace, and the remains of a hand-made Arts and Crafts engraved black slate fireplace, with cast-iron hood inlaid with red and black tiles. As of February 2014 the lodge, which is a private residence and is not listed, was under major renovation.
Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove, 1892 This building is
Grade II listed Barber designed St John the Divine at Denby Dale Road West, Calder Grove,
Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1892 at a building cost of £1,300, and it was consecrated by the
Bishop of Wakefield on Tuesday 23 May 1893. The building was described as "a
Mission church in the
Early English style." It is built of
Elland stone with
Huddersfield stone dressing. The nave has an open-timberwork roof and is long. The chancel is long. The original pews were of stained and varnished red
deal. The east window is a memorial to John Mackie. The congregation at the dedication service included Mrs Mackie, her brother in law and other relatives, people from "leading families in the locality "including Briggs, Thompson and Cartwright, and numerous local clergy." The building has a cut
bench mark on the exterior north side.
Town Hall, Brighouse, 1898 The
town hall is a
Grade II listed building In Thornton Square,
Brighouse, West Yorkshire. This work was a development by Barber of the existing Town Hall at Brighouse, West Yorkshire. It was originally designed by John Lord junior as the Municipal Offices, to be used as an annexe to the old town hall (now the Civic Hall; see above). It opened on 16 March 1887. In 1898 Barber was employed to do more work of unknown nature on this building. One possibility is that he was connected in some way with the chairman's chair in the Council Chamber. It had a carved reredos in the style of the late 1890s, and Barber was known to have expertise in this type of piece. The Listing description describes it thus: "Chairman's chair has carved reredos behind with canopy over with pediment and drop finials." In 2010 the Council sold the property, the chairman's chair was dismantled, and there is now a dental practice in the building.
Church of St Matthew, Primrose Hill, 1898–99 Barber submitted plans for St Matthew mission church, Primrose Hill, Rashcliffe in
Huddersfield, in 1898–99, but his submission was rejected. The church was eventually built in 1902 by an architect whose identity is not known. ==Undated works==