CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1072015
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1983
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, TALBOT ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, TALBOT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 30726 36433
Details
SD 33 NW
44-/1/23
BLACKPOOL
TALBOT ROAD
Church of the Sacred Heart
II*
1857, by Edward Welby Pugin, enlarged 1894 by Pugin and Pugin. Decorated Gothic.
Stone, with slate roofs. West tower of 4 stages, angled buttresses and
battlemented coping with tall corner pinnacles. Nave of 4 bays, with
buttressed aisles, and nave transepts; octagonal crossing also with
transepts, and octagonal lantern to the crossing. Aisle windows of 3
lights. Nave transepts have 4-light window with geometrical tracery,
octagon transepts have large 6-light window with reticulated tracery and
a 3-light gable eye with archivolt. Octagonal crossing has pyramidal
roof bearing a distinctive octagonal wooden lantern with a pair of
traceried windows in each side, and a pyramidal copper roof with gablets
on alternate sides. Interior: nave arcade of moulded lancet arches on
clustered marble columns. The unusual crossing is formed by an octagonal
arcade of moulded arches on shafted piers; lantern above is carried on two
tiers of hammerbeams in the angles, the upper tier supporting an unglazed
prolongation of the wooden lantern above. Chancel has arched ceiling
with painted and carved panels and large skylights, and a coved cornice
with carvings of angels; chancel window of 5 lights with flowing tracery;
elaborate carved reredos. A lady chapel in the salient each side of the
chancel. Octagonal pulpit of elaborately carved white marble on a pedestal
of short columns, alternately black and red.
Listing NGR: SD3072636433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183680
- 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
