CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1068422
Date first listed: 10-May-1988
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH, BOLTON ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH, BOLTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference: SD 62014 07567
Details
ASPULL BOLTON ROAD
SD 60 NW
(south side)
6/11 Church of
- St. Elizabeth
G.V. II
Church. 1876. By James Medland Taylor and Henry Taylor. Common
brick with red brick and stone dressings and slate roof with
bands. Single vessel nave and chancel with south aisle
under lean-to roof, west baptistry, chancel with south organ
loft (ritual west is actual south). 4-bay nave has blind
arcade to north with lancets with plain openings, paired to
east. 3 large buttresses. Clerestory has sill band and pairs
of paired lights. West end has brick with 4 lights on sill
band and central blind light with brick calvary cross;
pointed entrance with gablet over to south. Wheel window
with flanking flat gabled buttresses with tracery; check
work apex. Aisle has 3 lancets to west stepped up roof
slope; paired lights and one big buttress; lean-to porch.
Gabled organ loft has 2 lights and sexfoil under hood mould;
buttress to right. Nave east gable has some crow stepping
and octagonal bell turret, open timber stage and slate
spire. 2-bay chancel has 3-light east window; north and
south windows of 3 cusped lights. To north, west bay has 3
stepped lights under relieving arch. Vestry in angle of
chancel and organ loft. Interior: arcade has round stone
piers and arch-braced king and queen post roof. Polychrome
brick patterns to walls. West end has 2 arched bays to
vestry and baptistry. Round font has roundels and frieze on
round pier with flat buttresses. Chancel arch with water
leaf capitals on round brick shafts. Low wall with traceried
arcading and canted front to pulp-it. Wrought iron rood.
Boarded arched roof. Arch to organ loft and 2 sedilia to
south, piscina to north. Stone reredos with canopy to cross.
7 hanging lights. Contemporary stalls.
Listing NGR: SD6201407567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 213567
Legacy System: LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing