CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART

CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, TALBOT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1072015
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, TALBOT ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-21
Reference:: IOE01/01659/04
Rights:: © Mr G M Smith. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1072015
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, TALBOT 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 THE SACRED HEART, TALBOT ROAD

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

District:: Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
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

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Legacy System number:: 183680
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.