ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, PRESTON NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074095
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY
Statutory Address:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, PRESTON NEW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074095
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, PRESTON NEW ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, PRESTON NEW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: South Ribble (District Authority)
Parish:: Samlesbury
National Grid Reference:: SD 59353 30319

Details

SD 53SE SAMLESBURY off PRESTON NEW ROAD

1/97 Roman Catholic Church of - Saint John Southworth and attached presbytery

- II

Chapel with presbytery under one roof, dated 1818. Rubble, stone quoins and dressings, slate roof hipped at west end which is presbytery. Chapel of rectangular plan; entrance at east end in round-headed doorway with stone jambs, a stone tablet above it lettered:- HOLINESS BESEEMETH THY HOUSE O LORD AT ALL TIMES. PS. 92 1818

Stone band, from which rise 4 windows in each side (and 2 in the east gable, which are now blocked), all stilted lunettes with radiating glazing bars. Presbytery of 2 storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, facade of scored stucco, moulded stone doorcase with semi-circular fan light (a modern glazed porch attached); all windows sashed with glazing bars. Hipped roof with chimney on the hip, another on the ridge behind, and a belfry on the apex. Interior of chapel: a simple shell with flat ceiling; east gallery on 2 iron columns; a rear wall behind altar has a large framing recess with wide depressed arch flanked by Ionic columns bearing a dentilled cornice and frieze lettered "ECCE PANIS ANGELORUM", altar surrounded by curved communion rail with stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SD5935330319

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Legacy System number:: 358002
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.