CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH

CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH, BOLTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068422
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH, BOLTON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-03-04
Reference:: IOE01/03284/05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068422
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ELIZABETH, BOLTON 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:: 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)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
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

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Legacy System number:: 213567
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.