Church of the Immaculate Conception

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkill Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055870
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: Church of the Immaculate Conception
Statutory Address:: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkill Lane

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Date:: 2001-10-07
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055870
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: Church of the Immaculate Conception
Statutory Address 1:: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkill Lane

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkill Lane

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Eckington
National Grid Reference:: SK 45432 78611

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 April 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 47 NE 8/124

PARISH OF ECKINGTON SPINKILL LANE Church of the Immaculate Conception

II

Catholic church. 1846 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom, with extensions of 1864 and 1966. Regularly coursed coal measures sandstone with ashlar gritstone dressings, rising from a diagonal plinth, coped gables with cross finials, coped gables and Welsh slated roofs. Tower with broach spire, with single stage projecting tower stair tower, nave with south nave porch, chancel with north and south chancel chapels, and extension to chancel chapel of 1964.

Three stage tower with stepped clasping buttresses, with set-offs, with moulded stringcourse linking lancet buttresses set-off and moulded bandcourses delineating the tower stages. Coupled pointed arched EE style belfry lights below a moulded cornice from which the octagonal spire rises. The spire has decorative diagonal masonry bands and lucarnes, which incorporate clock faces, with cross finials. South face with niche, with Dec. style surround, with statue of the Virgin. Projecting single storey tower for tower stair, with stepped flagged roof. Tall lancet to west tower wall at first stage level, with deeply moulded surround below hoodmould with foliage stops. Lancets to ground floor beneath continuous string which acts as hoodmould. Gabled porch with diagonal buttresses, coped gable with cross finial and tripartite niche to gable apex with figures of the Virgin and attendant angels. Single doorway with moulded pointed arch beneath hoodmould with head stop.

Nave of five bays, with stepped diagonal buttresses to west end, and similar buttresses delineating nave bays. Steeply pointed arched two-light windows within deeply recessed and moulded surround with moulded stringcourse below cills and hoodmoulds with head stops. Chamfered eaves band carried on corbel table. Chancel south chapel with stepped diagonal buttresses, and four linked shallow two-light windows with trefoil heads to lights supporting quatrefoils. Hoodmoulds to each window with carved stops. Single three-light pointed arched window with simple tracery to east end. Chancel with simplified corbel table, diagonal buttresses, and a three-light window with deeply recessed and moulded surround. Moulded stringcourse steps up beneath cill level. Chancel south chapel with seven linked single lights, each a cusped lancet beneath a hoodmould, the moulding linked at the capitals of intermediate attached shafts. Diagonal buttresses to north-east corner. Vestry of 1864 to north of chapel with plain chamfered plinth and three two-light cross windows with trefoil heads to each light. Taller cross windows to north gable, with diagonal projecting stack, separating lancets in gable apex, and terminating in circular stone chimney. Vestry doorway to west of extension, now blocked and used as window. Plain flat roofed extension to nave north wall.

Interior. Roof carried on elaborate corbels which support roof posts. Tall EE style chancel arch, alabaster reredos of 1904, contemporary reredos with upper part of 1904. Chancel north chapel with diminutive hammer beam roof.

Listing NGR: SK4543278611

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Legacy System number:: 79605
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.