Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, BOLTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1067508
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, BOLTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1067508
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, BOLTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, BOLTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78719 01606
Details
In the entry for: SWINTON & PENDLEBURY BOLTON ROAD SD 70 SE (south-west side) 2/2 30/3/66 Church of St Augustine G. V. II*
the grade shall be amended to read grade I.
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SWINTON & PENDLEBURY BOLTON ROAD SD 70 SE (south-west side) 2/2 Church of 30/3/66 St. Augustine G.V. II*
Church. 1871-4. By G. F. Bodley for Edward Stanley Heywood,a Manchester banker. Brick with clay tile roof and stone dressings. Nave and chancel all under continuous roof with west door, south porch and north vestry. Passage-aisles pierce the internal buttresses. Free Gothic style. Total of 10 bays which have a projecting plinth and shallow weathered buttresses which rise above the coped parapet to be terminated in gablets. The nave and chancel are treated similarly except that 3-light windows below blank arches (apparently inspired by Toulouse and Albi) in the nave are replaced by 4-light windows with reticulated tracery in the chancel. The chancel has pierced quatrefoils in the parapet and the eastern bay is canted to take up the depth of the passage-aisles and add to the internal perspective. A blind bay, or on the south a projecting staircase to the Rood also separates nave from chancel. The 7-light east window has flowing reticulated tracery and is surrounded by cusped panelling at high level. Angled buttresses to either side have statue niches towards the top and are finished by elaborate crocketed pinnacles. 5-light west window. Interior: magnificent proportions with the internal buttresses supporting arches at high level and short transverse vaults across the passage-aisles. Barrel roof which is richly painted above chancel. Sanctuary is raised by several steps. Reredos has tiers of painted figures. Organ case, elaborately carved Rood screen and sedilia all by Bodley. Stained glass and pews. Stone font. The church shows remarkable quality of design from the imposing simplicity of its massing to the smallest detail of internal fittings. Probably Bodley's most radical church. An equally impressive tower was designed but never built. N. Pevsner, BoE.
Listing NGR: SD7872401610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 211956
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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