Church Of St Saviour

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 52NE WALTON LE DALE CHURCH ROAD

5/118 Church of St. Saviour - GV II

Church, 1817 by Edmund Sharpe,with transepts and chancel 1886 by T.H. Myres. Stone, slate roof with red ridge tiles. Tower with spire; nave with transepts; apsidal chancel. Romanesque style: lesenes, Lombard frieze, round-headed lancets. Tower of 3 elements (2-stage square base, 2-stage octagonal drum, octagonal spire) with circular window at ground floor and 3 lancets above, a band and frieze to the drum which has a recessed belfry louvre in each face, and a splayed base to the spire.

Nave now of 5 bays, the 1st on the west side with a segmental headed door and all others with round-headed lancets; rainwater heads dated 1817.

Transepts have bands on 2 levels, the upper rising as a hoodmould to the heads of two pairs of round headed windows, above which is a large wheel window; west transept has a doorway in the re-entrant, east transept has a squire's door in Norman style; rainwater heads dated 1886. Semi- circular apse with moulded bands, the upper rising as a hoodmould to 9 round headed windows; apse wall incorporates 3 foundation stones laid by Mrs. Townley Parker, the Right Hon. Viscount Cranbourne, and Mrs. G.B. Dewhurst of Oughtrington Park, all dated 17 July, 1886.

Interior: at south end is a glazed screen and a large gallery supported by 2 iron columns with foliated surfaces, the front panelled, with Royal Arms in centre; unusual double transept arches rising from a central shafted column with foliated capital, the outer ends dying at a high level; ribbed chancel ceiling; east transept has various wall tablets to Townley Parker family.

Listing NGR: SD5654325012

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0738 IOE Records taken by K Foster; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr K. Foster. Source: Historic England Archive

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